Document ID (ISN) | 37992 |
CIS number |
82-1114 |
Year |
1982 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Regnier V. |
Title |
Anosmia of occupational origin |
Original title |
Les anosmies d'origine professionnelle [in French] |
Bibliographic information |
Université de Paris VI, Faculté de médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, 1982. 71p. 70 ref. |
Abstract |
This medical thesis covers: anatomical and physiological review of the sense of smell, means of investigation and main causes of impaired sense of smell, survey of forms of persistent loss of smell of post-traumatic occupational origin (following a trauma to the face) or due to toxic exposure (heavy metals, solvent, sugar dust, flour, tobacco and wood). Analysis of causes of partial loss of sense of smell due to olfactory fatigue; difficulties of differential diagnosis and medicolegal aspects. The occupational physician's job is to detect, at the pre-employment medical examinations, sense of smell disorders and "spontaneous olfactory scotomas", and to monitor olfactory function in workers exposed to substances suspected of toxicity. |
Descriptors (primary) |
toxic substances; loss of smell; organic solvents; respirable dust |
Descriptors (secondary) |
France; pre-employment medical examinations; arsenic; lead; sugar; tobacco; wood; flour; diagnosis; thesis; expertise; medical supervision; cadmium; chromium; mercury |
Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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Broad subject area(s) |
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Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of other sense organs (other than the eye and the ears)
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