Skin manifestations of arsenicosis in two villages in Bangladesh

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 841-846

  Kadono, Takafumi ^a,b,c,d,e   Inaoka, Tsukasa ^a,b,c,d,e   Murayama, Nobuko ^a,b,c,d,e   Ushijima, Kayo ^a,b,c,d,e   Nagano, Megumi ^a,b,c,d,e   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a,b,c,d,e   Watanabe, Chiho ^a,b,c,d,e   Tamaki, Kunihiko ^a,b,c,d,e   Ohtsuka, Ryutaro ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KERATOSIS PALMARIS; KERATOSIS PLANTARIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STAGING; TRUNK; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; BANGLADESH; FEMALE; FOOT DERMATOSES; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KERATOSIS; MALE; MELANOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORAX; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0036940860     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.2002.01668.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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