Citation

Kostrzewski P, Jakubowski M, Kołaciński Z. J. Toxicol. Clin. Toxicol. 1993; 31(2): 353-363.

Affiliation

Department of Toxic Substances Metabolism, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lódź, Poland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Marcel Dekker)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8492349

Abstract

The kinetics of trichloroethylene were examined in three men, 28-36 years old, hospitalized after an acute occupational exposure. The trichloroethylene concentration of venous blood was determined by gas chromatography with headspace analysis; urinary trichloroacetic acid was assayed by the colorimetric method of Fujiwara. The kinetics of blood trichlorethylene (t1/2 21.7 h) and the urinary elimination of trichloracetic acid over six days were used to calculate the total inhalation exposures. Blood trichlorethylene was diagnostically more relevant than urinary trichloracetic acid.

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