A case-control study: Occupational cooking and the risk of uveal melanoma

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schmidt Pokrzywniak, Andrea ^a   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^b   Marr, Anja ^b   Bornfeld, Norbert ^b   Stang, Andreas ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COOKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; UVEA MELANOMA; UVEA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COOKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958073863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-10-26     Document Type: Article

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