Vibration-white foot: A case report

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 572-574

  Thompson, A M S ^a   House, R ^a   Krajnak, K ^b   Eger, T ^c  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feet; Hand arm vibration syndrome; Occupational; Raynaud's phenomenon; Vibration

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOOT DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; VIBRATION;

COLD TEMPERATURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RAYNAUD DISEASE; VIBRATION;

EID: 77957253577     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqq107     Document Type: Article

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