Long-term follow-up study on patients with vibration-induced white finger (VWF)

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1203-1206

  Kurozawa, Youichi ^a   Nasu, Yoshiro ^b   Hosoda, Takenobu ^a   Nose, Takayuki ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAN IN ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLD EXPOSURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HAND ARM VIBRATION SYNDROME; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; VIBRATION INDUCED WHITE FINGER;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; COLD; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0036915225     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-200212000-00017     Document Type: Article

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