Skin tumors among employees of a tar refinery: The current data and their implications

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 485-495

  Voelter Mahlknecht, S ^a   Scheriau, R ^a   Zwahr, G ^b   Koch, B ^b   Pinzon, L C Escobar ^a   Drexler, H ^c   Letzel, S ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Energy   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Keratoacanthoma; Skin tumors; Squamous cell carcinoma; Tar refinery

Indexed keywords

TAR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMPLOYEE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; KERATOACANTHOMA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELANOMA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRECANCER; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247850912     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-006-0155-y     Document Type: Article

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