Long-term pulmonary complications of chemical warfare agent exposure in Iraqi Kurdish civilians

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 719-724

  Ghanei, Mostafa ^a   Naderi, Mostafa ^a   Kosar, Ali Morad ^b   Harandi, Ali Amini ^a   Hopkinson, Nicholas S ^c   Poursaleh, Zohreh ^a  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Sulaimany Medical College   (Iraq)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical weapon; civil population; CT scan; gas trapping; halabja; iraqi kurdish; long term pulmonary complications; sulfur mustard

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; MUSTARD GAS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IRAN; IRAQ; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EXPOSURE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; COUGH; DYSPNEA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; IRAQ; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954770594     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08958371003686016     Document Type: Article

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