Cytopathology of the nasal mucosa in chronic exposure to diesel engine emission: A five-year survey of Swiss customs officers

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 925-929

  Glück, Ulrich ^a   Schütz, Rudolf ^a   Gebbers, Jan Olaf ^b  

^a Division of Occupational Medicine   (Switzerland)

^b LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical induced rhinitis; Diesel engine emission; Genotoxic air pollution; Nasal cytopathology

Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE DERIVATIVE; DIESEL FUEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIESEL ENGINE; DYSPLASIA; EXHAUST GAS; GENOTOXICITY; GOBLET CELL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPLASIA; NOSE MUCOSA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; OFFICE WORKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SUMMER; SWITZERLAND; WINTER; WORKING TIME;

EID: 0038759619     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.111-1241526     Document Type: Article

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