Neurological abnormalities associated with mobile phone use

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 366-368

  Hocking, Bruce ^b   Westerman, R ^a  

^a Caulfield General Medical Centre   (Australia)

^b Department of Occupational Medicine ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Dysaesthesiae; Mobile phone; Neurological; Radio frequency radiation

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; DILTIAZEM; SIMVASTATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; DERMATITIS; DYSESTHESIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; SCALP; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; TELEPHONE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0033868033     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/50.5.366     Document Type: Article

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