Periportal fibrosis and other liver ultrasonography findings in vinyl chloride workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-65

  Maroni, M ^a   Mocci, F ^b   Visentin, S ^a   Preti, G ^a   Fanetti, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CYST; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STEATOSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; RISK FACTORS; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037207965     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.1.60     Document Type: Article

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