Liver damage among shoe repairers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 541-547

  Tomei, Francesco ^a,b   Giuntoli, Paola ^a   Biagi, Marco ^a   Baccolo, Tiziana Paola ^a   Tomao, Enrico ^a   Rosati, Maria Valeria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Craftsmen; Hepatotoxicity; Low dose exposure; Shoe repairers; Solvent mixture

Indexed keywords

2 BUTANONE; ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETONE; GLUE; HEXANE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; TOLUENE;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SHOE INDUSTRY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WORKER;

ACETATES; ACETONE; ADHESIVES; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BUTANONES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEXANES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SHOES; SOLVENTS; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES; TOLUENE;

EID: 0032870055     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199911)36:5<541::AID-AJIM6>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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