Two offset printing workers with cholangiocarcinoma

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 164-168

  Kumagai, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,2 Dichloropropane; Cholangiocarcinoma; Dichloromethane; Printing

Indexed keywords

DICHLOROMETHANE; PROPANE; PROPYLENE DICHLORIDE;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRINTING; SMOKING;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLENE CHLORIDE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRINTING; PROPANE; SMOKING;

EID: 84901318697     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13489585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.13-0262-CS     Document Type: Article

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