Diphenylarsinic acid poisoning from chemical weapons in Kamisu, Japan

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 741-745

  Ishii, Kazuhiro ^a   Tamaoka, Akira ^a   Otsuka, Fujio ^a   Iwasaki, Nobuaki ^a   Shin, Kenji ^b   Matsui, Akira ^a   Endo, Ginji ^c   Kumagai, Yoshito ^a   Ishii, Tetsuro ^a   Shoji, Shin'ichi ^a   Ogata, Tsuyoshi ^d   Ishizaki, Mutsuo ^e   Doi, Mikio ^e   Shimojo, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Itako Public Health Center   (Japan)

^e Ibaraki Prefectural Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; CHLORODIPHENYLARSINE; DIPHENYLARSINIC ACID; DIPHENYLCYANOARSINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IOFETAMINE I 123; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SNEEZING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 9144225598     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20290     Document Type: Article

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