Formaldehyde exposure in some educational hospitals of Tehran

Industrial Health

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 703-707

  Ghasemkhani, Mehdi ^a   Jahanpeyma, Farahnaz ^a   Azam, Kamal ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concentration; Endoscopy; Formaldehyde; Pathology; Surgery

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENDOSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; IRAN; MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORMALDEHYDE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IRAN; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOMS; PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28444460333     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.43.703     Document Type: Article

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