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Seyed Naser Emadi, MD; Mohammadreza Mortazavi, MD; Hossein Mortazavi, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2008;144(8):1059-1061.

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Sulfur mustard gas (SM) is a potent alkylating agent that has a long history of use as a chemical warfare agent, including recent use by Iraq against Iranian soldiers and civilians.¹ The organs most commonly affected by SM are the skin, eyes, and airways. Skin lesions are seen in more than 90% of the patients exposed to SM. Although the acute systemic² and cutaneous³ effects of SM are well known, few investigations have dealt with the long-term effects.⁴ The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term cutaneous problems experienced by survivors of SM attack several years after exposure.

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The 800 male subjects of this cross-sectional descriptive study were recruited from surviving veterans of the Iraq-Iran war (1) whose exposure to SM from 1983 to 1988 was documented in their wartime medical records and (2) who had at least . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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