Acute exposure to aliphatic hydrocarbons: An unusual cause of acute tubular necrosis

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 1821-1823

  Landry, Jean François ^a   Langlois, Serge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; CREATININE; DIESEL FUEL; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCOL; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; THINNER; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; OLIGURIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; NECROSIS;

EID: 0032517072     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.16.1821     Document Type: Article

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