Delayed polyneuropathy in farm sprayers due to chronic low dose pesticide exposure

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Boostani, Reza ^a   Mellat, Ali ^b   Afshari, Reza ^c   Derakhshan, Siavash ^d   Saeedi, Morteza ^a   Rafeemanesh, Ehsan ^e   Mellat, Maryam ^f  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d NORTH KHORASAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electrodiagnosis; Neurotoxicity syndromes; Organophosphates; Pesticides; Polyneuropathies

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE AND DISTAL LATENCY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPOUND MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; POLYNEUROPATHY; SENSORY NERVE ACTION POTENTIAL; SKIN DISEASE;

EID: 84901228080     PISSN: 20741804     EISSN: 20741812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/ircmj.5072     Document Type: Article

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