Neurologic issues with solvents

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 621-656

  Rutchik, Jonathan S ^a,b   Wittman, Richard I ^c  

^a Neomacom   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Workforce Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE; 2 HEXANONE; ACETONE; ACRYLAMIDE; ALCOHOL; ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZALDEHYDE; BENZENE; BENZYL ALCOHOL; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLENE OXIDE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEXANE; METHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; STYRENE; STYRENE OXIDE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINYL CHLORIDE; XYLENE;

COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LABORATORY TEST; MALINGERING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPATHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; STABILOGRAPHY; TOXICOKINETICS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 4744362195     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coem.2004.03.010     Document Type: Review

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