Clinical services in environmental pediatrics

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-21

  Paulson, Jerome A ^a   Gordon, Lauren ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chelation; children; clinical ecology; environmental health; hair analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHELATION; CHILD HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEAD POISONING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 79251488490     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20230     Document Type: Article

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