The human pericardium in vibroacoustic disease

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3 II SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Castelo Branco, N A A ^a,d   Aguas A P ^d   Sousa Pereira, A ^d   Monteiro, E ^d   Fragata, J I G ^b,d   Tavares, F ^c,d   Grande, N R ^d  

^a Occup Medicine Research Center   (Portugal)

^b SANTA CRUZ HOSPITAL   (Portugal)

^c District Hospital of Barreiro   (Portugal)

^d Center for Human Performance   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Cardiovascular; Collagen; Diastolic; Elastin; Extra cellular matrix; Histology; Low frequency noise; Occupational; Thickening; Ult rastructure; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NOISE INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRATION DISEASE;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FIBROSIS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERICARDIUM; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0345580620     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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