Myelopathy among zinc-smelter workers in Upper Silesia during the late 19th century

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1175-1179

  Lanska, Douglas J ^a   Remler, Bernd ^b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ALLODYNIA; ATAXIC GAIT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DYSESTHESIA; FORMICATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LANGUAGE; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; SMELTER; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; ZINC;

EID: 84898736092     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000270     Document Type: Review

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