Acute life-threatening extrinsic allergic alveolitis in a paint controller

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 440-442

  Bieler, G ^a   Thorn, D ^b   Huynh, C K ^a   Tomicic, C ^a   Steiner, U C ^c   Yawalkar, N ^c   Danuser, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hexamethylene diisocyanate; Occupational extrinsic allergic alveolitis (EAA); Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Paint quality control

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052944163     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr057     Document Type: Article

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