Acute lead intoxication in a female battery worker: Diagnosis and management

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dounias, George ^a   Rachiotis, George ^b   Hadjichristodoulou, Christos ^b  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; CREATININE; SUCCIMER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BATTERY INDUSTRY; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYDRATION; LEAD POISONING; LIVER FUNCTION; MALAISE; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PALLOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 77955247239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6673-5-19     Document Type: Article

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