Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 292, Issue 1 , Pages 111-113 , 15 May 2010

Toxic encephalopathy caused by occupational exposure to 1, 2-Dichloroethane

  • Jian-Ren Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. J.-R. Liu is to be contacted at 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou 310009, PR China. Tel.: +86 87783722.
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  • Shan Fang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
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  • Mei-Ping Ding

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
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  • Zhi-Cai Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
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  • Jia-Jun Zhou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
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  • Fen Sun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
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  • Biao Jiang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
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  • Jian Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oncology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. J.-R. Liu is to be contacted at 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou 310009, PR China. Tel.: +86 87783722.

Received 12 July 2009 ,Revised 26 January 2010 ,Accepted 26 January 2010.

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PII: S0022-510X(10)00052-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.01.022

Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Volume 292, Issue 1 , Pages 111-113 , 15 May 2010

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