Association of clinical findings in Yusho patients with serum concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated quarterphenyls and 2,3,4,7,8-pentachlorodibenzofuran more than 30 years after the poisoning event

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kanagawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Shinya ^a   Koike, Soichi ^a   Tajima, Bunichi ^b   Fukiwake, Noriko ^c   Shibata, Satoko ^c   Uchi, Hiroshi ^c   Furue, Masutaka ^c   Imamura, Tomoaki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TERADATA CORPORATION   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,4,7,8 PENTACHLORODIBENZOFURAN; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED QUARTERPHENYL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS; DRUG DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; POLYCHLORODIBENZO-4-DIOXIN; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; RICE BRAN; YUSHO DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

MEIBOMIA;

ARTHRALGIA; BENZOFURANS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLANT OILS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN DISEASES; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54849416564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-47     Document Type: Article

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