Long-term pulmonary complications in sulfur mustard victims of Sardasht, Iran

Toxin Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-13

  Pourfarzam, Shahryar ^a   Ghazanfari, Tooba ^a   Merasizadeh, Javad ^b   Ghanei, Mostafa ^b   Azimi, Ghasem ^a   Araghizadeh, Hassan ^b   Foroutan, Abbas ^c   Shams, Jalaleddin ^a   Ghasemi, Hassan ^a   Yaraee, Roya ^a   Shariat Panahi, Shamsa ^a   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^d   Hassan, Zuhair Mohammad ^e   Moaiedmohseni, Sakine ^a   Nadoushan, Mohammad Reza Jalali ^a   Fallahi, Faramarz ^a   Mahdavi, Mohammad Reza Vaez ^a   Moin, Athar ^a   Ghazanfari, Zeinab ^f   Ghaderi, Sulayman ^g   Yarmohammadi, Mohammad Ebrahim ^a   Naghizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Faghihzadeh, Soghrat ^e   more..

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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

^e TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^f ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g Chemical Victims' Clinic of Sardasht   (Iran)

Author keywords

FEV1; Pulmonary function test; Respiratory complications; Sardasht Iran Cohort Study; Sulfur mustard

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXPOSURE; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RHONCHI; SPUTUM; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; WHEEZING;

EID: 70350572171     PISSN: 15569543     EISSN: 15569551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15569540802689220     Document Type: Article

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