Metam sodium intoxication: The specific role of degradation products methyl isothiocyanate and carbon disulphide as a function of exposure

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 416-422

  Deguigne, Marie Bretaudeau ^a   Lagarce, Laurence ^a   Boels, David ^a   Harry, Patrick ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Dithiocarbamate; Fumigant; Pesticide; Poisoning; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CARBON DISULFIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DISULFIRAM; FUMIGANT; ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; METHAM SODIUM; METHYLISOTHIOCYANATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BURN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DEGRADATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVER; DYSGEUSIA; DYSPNEA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; SANITATION; SEWER; URTICARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARBON DISULFIDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INHALATION EXPOSURE; ISOTHIOCYANATES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PESTICIDES; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; THIOCARBAMATES;

EID: 79960271421     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2011.585472     Document Type: Article

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