A decade after the Tokyo sarin attack: A review of neurological follow-up of the victims

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 607-610

  Hoffman, Azik ^a   Eisenkraft, Arik ^a   Finkelstein, Arseny ^a   Schein, Ophir ^a   Rotman, Eran ^a   Dushnitsky, Tsvika ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

EID: 34250329167     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.6.607     Document Type: Article

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