TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Comparison late cutaneous complications between exposure to sulfur mustard and nerve agents
JO  - Cutaneous and ocular toxicology
A1  - Emadi, Seyed Naser
A1  - Aslani, Jafar
A1  - Poursaleh, Zohreh
A1  - Izadi, Morteza
A1  - Soroush, Mohammadreza
A1  - Kafashi, Mohammad
A1  - Alavinia, Seyed Ali
A1  - Bakhshi, Hossein
A1  - Karimi, Amir
A1  - Momtaz-Manesh, Kourosh
A1  - Babaei, Ali Akbar
A1  - Esmaili, Alireza
A1  - Raygan, Babak
A1  - Emadi, Seyed Emad
A1  - Babamahmoodi, Farhang
A1  - Emadi, Seyed Abolfazl
SP  - 214
EP  - 219
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 18.1% mustard exposed group was asymptomatic compared to 62.4% nerve agent exposures. Mustard and non-mustard scars, intertrigo, xerosis, cherry angioma, hyper pigmentation, pilar keratosis, poikiloderma, and malignant tumors were significantly more frequent in mustard exposed patients (p < 0.05). Nerve agent exposed patients experienced significantly more frequent occurrence of acne a seborrheic dermatitis and tinea versicolor. Conclusions: Mustard induced dermaltologic lesions were more common and specific than (NA) skin injuries. (NA) cause few psychocutaneous disorders like acne and seborrheic dermatitis in addition to psychological stress disorders.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1556-9527
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/15569527.2011.641196
ID  - ref1
ER  -