Yunes Panahi, Nasrin Gholami, Morteza Ghojazadeh, Farnaz Moslemi, Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Alireza Ghaffari, Reza Piri
BACKGROUND: Catastrophic effects of mustard gas as a chemical warfare agent have always been a major problem for those exposed to this agent. In this meta-analysis it was tried to evaluate carcinogenesis, ocular, cutaneous and respiratory complications of mustard gas exposure among Iranians who had been exposed to this agent during the Iran-Iraq war. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this meta-analysis, the required data were collected using keywords "mustard gas", "sulfur mustard", "cancer", "neoplasm", "respiratory complications", "ocular complications" , "lung disease", "chronic complication", "eye", "skin", "cutaneous complication", "carcinogenesis" and their combination with keywords "Iran", "Iranian", "prevalence", "mortality" and their Farsi equivalent terms from the databases of SID, Iranmedex, Magiran, Pubmed, Science Direct, Google Search engine, Gray Literature and Reference of References...
2015: Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention: APJCP