Grand rounds: An outbreak of toxic hepatitis among industrial waste disposal workers

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-112

  Cheong, Hae Kwan ^a   Kim, Eun A ^b   Choi, Jung Keun ^b   Choi, Sung Bong ^b   Suh, Jeong Ill ^c   Choi, Dae Seob ^d   Kim, Jung Ran ^c  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency   (South Korea)

^c Dongguk University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Complex exposure; Dimethylacetamide; Hepatotoxicity; Industrial waste; Liver biopsy; Toxic hepatitis

Indexed keywords

1,4 BUTANEDIOL; 2 BUTOXYETHANOL; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; 4 METHYL 2 PENTANONE; 4,4' METHYLENEDIANILINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; BUTANOL; CALCIUM OXIDE; CYCLOHEXANONE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HEXANOIC ACID; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; N,N DIMETHYLACETAMIDE; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PYRIDINE; TETRADECANE; TETRAHYDROFURAN; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VAPOR; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDES; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 33846030168     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8951     Document Type: Article

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