Cytogenetic tests performed on operating room personnel (the use of anaesthetic gases)

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-64

  Bilban, Marjan ^a,c   Jakopin, C Bilban ^b   Ogrinc, D ^a  

^a Institute of Occupational Safety   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c Zavod za Varstvo Pri Delu   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic gases; Genotoxic effect; Micronucleus test; Occupational exposure; Sister chromatid exchange; Structural chromosomal aberrations

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC GAS; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; POLLUTANT; RADIOLOGIST; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SLOVENIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOMS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SLOVENIA;

EID: 15044344248     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-004-0579-1     Document Type: Article

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