Seyed Naser Emadi, Jafar Aslani, Zohreh Poursaleh, Morteza Izadi, Mohammadreza Soroush, Mohammad Kafashi, Seyed Ali Alavinia, Hossein Bakhshi, Amir Karimi, Kourosh Momtaz-Manesh, Ali Akbar Babaei, Alireza Esmaili, Babak Raygan, Seyed Emad Emadi, Farhang Babamahmoodi, Seyed Abolfazl Emadi
BACKGROUND: Iraq used chemical weapons against thousands of Iranian militaries and civilians. This study aimed to compare the chronic cutaneous side effects of exposure to sulfur mustard (SM) with nerve agents (NA). METHODS: The study enrolled 154 SM exposed cases and 175 (NA) exposed cases. Presence of any late cutaneous manifestations was evaluated by a dermatologist via prior history of acute cutaneous complications extracted from medical achieves. RESULTS: only 18...
September 2012: Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology