A patient with Wegener's granulomatosis who worked in a foundry: A case for a causal association with silicon dioxide;Een arbeider in een ijzergieterij met de ziekte van Wegener: Ondersteuning voor een causaal verband met siliciumdioxide

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 46, 2003, Pages 2294-2297

  Van Haecht, C H M ^a   Verbanck, J ^a   Delobelle, W ^a  

^a Christelijke Mutualiteit Roeselare   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC NECROSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DUST EXPOSURE; FOUNDRY; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; DUST; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SILICON DIOXIDE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0242544056     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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