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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 46861 |
| CIS number |
86-1681 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0340-0131 - International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health |
| Year |
1985 |
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| Author(s) |
Døssing M., Skinhøj P. |
| Title |
Occupational liver injury - Present state of knowledge and future perspective |
| Bibliographic information |
1985, Vol.56, No.1, p.1-21. 164 ref. |
| Abstract |
Epidemiological studies using immunological methods have mapped the occurrence of hepatitis B among health-care personnel and thereby made rational, effective preventive precautions possible, and hepatitis B vaccine has offered further improvements. However, in the field of chemically-induced occupational liver damage, only a few of the thousands of industrial chemicals have been sufficiently tested for hepatotoxicity and the list of suspected and confirmed hepatotoxic agents is still growing. The example of vinyl chloride-induced liver disease among plastics workers calls for intensified activities in the field of occupational toxicology. However, the clinical, biochemical, and morphological features of liver disease are often vague and unspecific. A non-invasive, convenient quantitative liver function test is needed. Circumstantial evidence and a few epidemiological studies suggest that so-called cryptogenic liver diseases, such as liver cirrhosis, may be caused by occupational exposure to chemicals. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
hepatic diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
literature survey; harmful substances; toxic hepatitis; toxic substances; hepatitis; infectious hepatitis |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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| Browse category(ies) |
Liver diseases
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Viral diseases (other than aids)
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