An assessment of dermal exposure to semi-synthetic metal working fluids by different methods to group workers for an epidemiological study on dermatitis

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 633-641

  Van Wendel De Joode, B ^b   Bierman, E P B ^b   Brouwer, D H ^b   Spithoven, J ^a   Kromhout, H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; DERMATITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN;

EID: 24044529774     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.015396     Document Type: Article

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