Grand rounds: Latex-induced occupational asthma in a surgical pathologist

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 888-893

  Green McKenzie, Judith ^a   Hudes, Debra ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Formaldehyde; Health care worker; Latex allergy; Occupational asthma; Pathology; Xylene

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; LATEX; SALBUTAMOL; SALMETEROL XINAFOATE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA; FLUSHING; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATHOLOGIST; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN ALLERGY; SURGICAL GLOVE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URTICARIA; WHEEZING; WORKPLACE;

ASTHMA; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PHYSICIANS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 22144436622     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7830     Document Type: Article

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