Symptoms of chronic solvent encephalopathy: Euroquest questionnaire study

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1187-1194

  Kaukiainen, Ari ^a   Hyvärinen, Hanna Kaisa ^a   Akila, Ritva ^a   Sainio, Markku ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Neurotoxic symptoms; Occupational disease; Questionnaire; Screening; Solvents

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN DISEASE; CARPENTER; CHRONIC SOLVENT INDUCED ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; FINLAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOLVENTS;

EID: 71049141306     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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