A case of severe neurotoxicity associated with exposure to 1-bromopropane, an alternative to ozone-depleting or global-warming solvents

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1257-1260

  Samukawa, Makoto ^a   Ichihara, Gaku ^b   Oka, Nobuyuki ^c   Kusunoki, Susumu ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c National Hospital Organization Minami Kyoto Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 BROMOPROPANE; BROMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OZONE; PROPANE; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIAL NERVE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAIT DISORDER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEG PAIN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OZONE DEPLETION; PARESTHESIA; PATELLA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SURAL NERVE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TIBIAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAIN; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 84865983084     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3987     Document Type: Article

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