Long-term skin findings of sulfur mustard exposure on the civilians of Sardasht, Iran

Toxin Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-29

  Moin, Athar ^a   Ghazanfari, Tooba ^a   Davoudi, Seyyed Masoud ^b   Emadi, Naser ^b,c   Panahi, Yunes ^b   Hassan, Zuhair Mohammad ^c   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^d   Khateri, Shahryar ^d   Amini, Reza ^d   Naghizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Yaraee, Roya ^a   Ghasemi, Hassan ^a   Shams, Jalaleddin ^a   Mahdavi, Mohammad Reza Vaez ^a   Moaiedmohseni, Sakine ^a   Nadoushan, Mohammad Reza Jalali ^a   Merasizadeh, Javad ^b   Faghihzadeh, Soghrat ^c  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d JANBAZAN MEDICAL AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER JMERC   (Iran)

Author keywords

Sardasht Iran Cohort Study; Skin finding; Sulfur mustard

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS;

ACNE; ADULT; ANGIOMA; ARTICLE; BURN; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECZEMA; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IRAN; KERATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRURITUS; SCAR; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN DEFECT; URTICARIA; XEROSIS;

EID: 70350567626     PISSN: 15569543     EISSN: 15569551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15569540802689311     Document Type: Article

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