Nasal function in self-reported chemically intolerant individuals

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 247-254

  Wiesmüller, Gerhard Andreas ^a   Thriel, Christoph van ^b   Steup, Achim ^b   Blaszkewicz, Meinolf ^b   Golka, Klaus ^b   Kiesswetter, Ernst ^b   Seeber, Andreas ^b   Bachert, Claus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

2 butanone; Acoustic rhinometry; Anterior active rhinomanometry; Ethylbenzene; Exposure laboratory; Multiple chemical sensitivity; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

2 BUTANONE; ETHYLBENZENE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; NOSE MUCOSA; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOMANOMETRY; RHINOMETRY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

EID: 0036558485     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039890209602944     Document Type: Article

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