Long-term health status 20 years after sulfur mustard exposure

Toxin Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-7

  Moaiedmohseni, Sakine ^a   Ghazanfari, Tooba ^a   Araghizadeh, Hassan ^b   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^c   Yaraee, Roya ^a   Hassan, Zuhair Mohammad ^d   Foroutan, Abbas ^e   Mahdavi, Mohammad Reza Vaez ^a   Ghasemi, Hasan ^a   Shams, Jalaleddin ^a   Pourfarzam, Shahryar ^a   Nadoushan, Mohammad Reza Jalali ^a   Fallahi, Faramarz ^a   Amini, Reza ^c   Khateri, Shahryar ^c   Ghazanfari, Zeinab ^f   Moin, Athar ^a   Naghizadeh, Mohammad Mahdi ^a   Ghasemian, Ali Rahm ^a   Faghihzadeh, Soghrat ^d  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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

^d TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Health status; Sardasht Iran Cohort Study (SICS); Sulfur mustard

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; MUSTARD GAS; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT; TOPICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; EXPOSURE; EYE DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 70350568598     PISSN: 15569543     EISSN: 15569551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15569540802689196     Document Type: Article

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