Acute expanded perlite exposure with persistent reactive airway dysfunction syndrome

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-122

  Du, Chung Li ^a   Wang, Jung Der ^a,b   Chu, Po Chin ^a,b   Guo, Yue Liang Leon ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Expanded perlite; Provocation test; Reactive airway dysfunction; Simulation; Spill

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; PERLITE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TAIWAN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SILICON DIOXIDE; TAIWAN;

EID: 77249146929     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.48.119     Document Type: Article

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