Acute carbamate and organochlorine toxicity causing convulsions in an agricultural pilot: A case report

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 68-72

  Cable, Gordon G ^a   Doherty, Steven ^b  

^a Royal Australian Air Force   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agricultural aviation; Carbamate poisoning; Convulsions; Epilepsy; Occupational injury; Organochlorine poisoning; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE INSECTICIDE; ENDOSULFAN; METHOMYL; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOSULFAN; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; METHOMYL; SEIZURES;

EID: 0032947329     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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