Patch testing with uranyl acetate in veterans exposed to depleted uranium during the 1991 Gulf War and the Iraqi conflict

Dermatitis

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-39

  Shvartsbeyn, Marianna ^a   Tuchinda, Papapit ^a   Gaitens, Joanna ^a   Squibb, Katherine S ^a   McDiarmid, Melissa A ^a   Gaspari, Anthony A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRITANT AGENT; URANIUM; URANYL ACETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LOCAL SKIN REACTION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATCH TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN TEST; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; GULF WAR; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PATCH TESTS; URANIUM; VETERANS;

EID: 79951472697     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6620.2011.10064     Document Type: Article

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