Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS);Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS)

Allergologie

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 527-537

  Hornberg, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Idiopathic environmental illness (IEI); Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; PATHOGENESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0032860845     PISSN: 03445062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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