Cryptic exposure to arsenic
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Cryptic exposure to arsenic.
Arsenic is an odorless, colorless and tasteless element long linked with effects on the skin and viscera. Exposure to it may be cryptic. Although human intake can occur from four forms, elemental, inorganic (trivalent and pentavalent arsenic) and organic arsenic, the trivalent inorganic arsenicals constitute the major human hazard. Arsenic usually reaches the skin from occupational, therapeutic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0378-6323
DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.16612