Occupational safety: Effects of workplace radiofrequencies on hearing function

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 517-521

  Oktay, M Faruk ^a   Dasdag, Suleyman ^a   Akdere, Mesut ^b   Cureoglu, Sebahattin ^b   Cebe, Musa ^a   Yazicioglu, Mehmet ^a   Topcu, Ismail ^a   Meric, Faruk ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometer (BERA); Hearing loss; Occupational safety; Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA); Radio broadcasting; Radio frequencies (RF)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE CONDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; HEARING; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 22944484747     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2004.11.011     Document Type: Article

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