Historical perspective on effects and treatment of sulfur mustard injuries

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 512-522

  Graham, John S ^a   Schoneboom, Bruce A ^a  

^a US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL DEFENSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical signs and symptoms; Eyes; Lung; Skin; Sulfur mustard; Treatments

Indexed keywords

2,20 DICHLORODIETHYL; ALOE VERA EXTRACT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CAPSAICIN; CETIRIZINE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CURCUMIN; DOXEPIN; EMOLLIENT AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; HYDROXYZINE; MENTHOL; MUSTARD GAS; NATURAL PRODUCT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OLIVE OIL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PIMECROLIMUS; PLACEBO; SKIN CREAM; STEROID; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; SUNSCREEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNNA BOOT;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLISTER; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; BURN; BURNING SENSATION; CALORIC INTAKE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA THINNING; CORNEA ULCER; DEBRIDEMENT; DESQUAMATION; DIET THERAPY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRY SKIN; EMPHYSEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIPHORA; ERYTHEMA; FLUID THERAPY; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; KERATITIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INJURY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PAPULAR RASH; PHOTOPHOBIA; PIGMENT DISORDER; PROTEIN INTAKE; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SILVER DRESSING; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; SKIN HYPERTROPHY; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN PAIN; SKIN PROTECTION; SKIN PRURITUS; SKIN SCAR; SKIN ULCER; SOLDIER; SULFUR MUSTARD INDUCED ATOPIC DERMATITIS; SULFUR MUSTARD INDUCED SKIN INJURY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VASCULITIS; XEROSIS;

1,1′-SULFONYLBIS[2-(METHYLTHIO)]ETHANE; AD; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE ZONE; BMZ; CLINICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; EYES; I.V.; IFN-Γ; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTRAVENOUS; LIMBAL STEM CELL DEFICIENCY; LSCD; LUNG; POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD; SBMTE; SKIN; SM; SULFUR MUSTARD; TBSA; TDG; THIODIGLYCOL; TOTAL BODY SURFACE AREA; TREATMENTS;

CHEMICAL WARFARE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EYE INJURIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IRAN; IRAQ; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MUSTARD GAS; SKIN;

EID: 84890118891     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: 18727786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2013.06.013     Document Type: Article

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