Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and hearing impairment in children

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-187

  Trnovec, Tomáš ^a   Šovčíková, Eva ^a   Hust'ák, Milan ^b   Wimmerová, Sona ^a   Kočan, Anton ^a   Jurečková, Dana ^c   Langer, Pavel ^d   Palkovičová, L'ubica ^a   Drobná, Beata ^a  

^a SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Military Aviation Hospital   (Slovakia)

^c The tefan Kukura Hospital and Policlinic   (Slovakia)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Children; Hearing; Otoacoustic emissions; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

LIPID; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; THYROID HORMONE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; OTOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SLOVAKIA; TYMPANOMETRY;

EID: 38349142503     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2007.10.030     Document Type: Article

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