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Abstract
People working in mines, plating factories, cement industries are mainly exposed to chrome substances, IIexavalent chromium has been implicated for its toxic effect on the nasal mucosa. Hereby we present a rare study of 28 patients who attended out patient department of Otorhinolaryngology at SSG Hospital, Baroda from a nearby chromium industry. This study aims to present various nasal manifestations of toxic effects of prolonged chromium exposure.Entities:
Keywords: hexavalent chromium; nasal septal perforation
Year: 2003 PMID： 23119944 PMCID： PMC3451073 DOI： 10.1007/BF02974605
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg ISSN： 2231-3796