Visual field losses in workers exposed to mercury vapor

Environmental Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-131

  Barboni, Mirella Telles Salgueiro ^a   da Costa, Marcelo Fernandes ^a   Moura, Ana Laura de Araújo ^a   Feitosa Santana, Cláudia ^a   Gualtieri, Mirella ^a   Lago, Marcos ^a   Medrado Faria, Marcília de Araújo ^a   Silveira, Luiz Carlos de Lima ^b   Ventura, Dora Fix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Automated perimetry; Mercury vapor; Neurotoxicology; Vision; Visual field

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECCENTRICITY; EYE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; NEUROLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RETINA FOVEA; URINALYSIS; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; WORKER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 41949121676     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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