Clinical Aspects of Chronic Arsenic Toxicity

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 49, Issue JUNE, 2001, Pages 650-655

  Mazumder, D N G ^a  

^a Inst Post Grad Med Educ and Res   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CHELATION THERAPY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC POISONING; CHELATION THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; SKIN DISEASES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

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