Professional paper

Cadmium poisoning

Donald Hunter ; Department for Research in Industrial Medicine (Medical Research Council) London

Abstract

An investigation to determine the incidence of chronic cadmium poisoning in men employed casting an alloy of copper-cadmium has been carried out. Among sixty- three men exposed to cadmium fume, sixteen were found to have symptoms could be due to chronic cadmium poisoning. There were eight cases of emphysema and proteinuria, six cases of emphysema without proteinuria and two cases of proteinuria without emphysema.

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Hrčak ID:

186727

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/186727

Publication date:

24.6.1954.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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