Irreversible color vision losses in patients with chronic mercury vapor intoxication

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 487-491

  Feitosa Santana, Cláudia ^a,d   Barboni, Mirella T S ^a   Oiwa, Nestor N ^a   Paramei, Galina V ^b   Simões, Ana Luisa A C ^a   Costa, Marcelo F Da ^a   Silveira, Luiz Carlos L ^c   Ventura, Dora F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cambridge Colour Test; Chromatic discrimination; MacAdam's color discrimination ellipses; Mercury toxicity; Neurotoxicology

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; MERCURY;

ADULT; CAMBRIDGE COLOR TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; COLOR VISION TEST; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MERCURIALISM; MONOCULAR VISION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINE LEVEL; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 46749138310     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523808080590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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