Delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard on respiratory tract of Iranian veterans

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1141-1149

  Balali Mood, Mahdi ^a   Afshari, Reza ^a   Zojaji, Ramin ^b   Kahrom, Hadi ^a   Kamrani, Maedeh ^b   Attaran, Davood ^c   Mousavi, Seyed Reza ^a   Zare, Gholam Ali ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

delayed toxic effects; lower respiratory tract; poisoning; sulfur mustard; upper respiratory tract

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MUSTARD GAS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DYSPHONIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTOXICATION; IRAN; LARYNGITIS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; LUNG; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPIROMETRY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VETERAN; VOCAL CORD; WHEEZING;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSTARD GAS; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 80052538235     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327110389501     Document Type: Article

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