Comparison of serum lead level in oral opium addicts with healthy control group

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 555-558

  Salehi, Hossein ^a   Sayadi, Ahmad Reza ^a   Tashakori, Mahnaz ^a   Yazdandoost, Rokhsareh ^a   Soltanpoor, Narges ^b   Sadeghi, Hossein ^b   Aghaee Afshar, Mahmood ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b RAFSANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Opium serum lead level

Indexed keywords

LEAD; OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IRAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MALE; OPIATE ADDICTION; SCREENING TEST;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; OPIUM;

EID: 71449114214     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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