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. 1978 Oct;26:89–95. doi: 10.1289/ehp.782689

Clinical expression of neurotoxic injury and diagnostic use of electromyography.

P M Le Quesne
PMCID: PMC1637261  PMID: 363422

Abstract

The clinical features of neurological damage produced by acrylamide, lead, organophosphates, hexacarbon solvents, and methylmercury are described, and the differences in effects of these compounds are stressed. The characteristic pattern of electrophysiological changes for each group of substances are described and correlated with pathological findings.

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