Chronic health impairment due to 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin exposure

Abstract

The aim of this study, performed in 2008, was to evaluate the consequences of severe occupational intoxication with 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) that occurred during production of the herbicide trichlorophenoxyacetic acid in the period 1965-1968.

Keywords

• 2,3,7,8-TCDD dioxin
• neuropaty
• toxic dyschromatopsia
• SPECT
• neuropsychological test
• vascular media
• diabetes
• TSH
• testosterone