Long-term ocular consequences of sulfur mustard in lung-injured war veterans

Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-37

  Ghasemi, Hassan ^a   Ghazanfari, Tooba ^a   Yaraee, Roya ^a   Rafii, Alireza Baradaran ^b   Pourfarzam, Shahriar ^a   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^c   Babaei, Mahmoud ^d   Faghihzadeh, Soghrat ^e   Naghizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Hassan, Zuhair Mohammad ^e  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c JANBAZAN MEDICAL AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER JMERC   (Iran)

^d BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Long term toxicity; Lung injuries; Ocular injuries; Sulfur mustard

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE TOXICITY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSTARD; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE INJURIES; HUMANS; IRAN; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSTARD GAS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; VETERANS;

EID: 84856908686     PISSN: 15569527     EISSN: 15569535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15569527.2011.595751     Document Type: Article

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