Digestive endoscopy and risk of upper limb biomechanical overload

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-177

  Battevi, N ^a   Menoni, Olga ^a   Cosentino, F ^b   Vitelli, Nora ^c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b SIED Società Italiana di Endoscopia Digestiva   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Endoscopist; UL WMSDs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 67949091350     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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