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KMID : 0604620020090010174
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Dongguk Journal of Medicine
2002 Volume.9 No. 1 p.174 ~ p.181
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A Case of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome in Worker Using to Impact Lench for Truck Repair
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A hand-arm vibration syndrome occurs in some workers who use hand held vibration tools. It is known by Raynaud’s phenomenon of occupational origin in 1950s as ’the vibration syndrome’ or vibration induced white finger’ has, in the 1980s, been renamed ’the hand arm vibration syndrome’. It consist of white fingers, pain in the hand and arm, and a small excess risk of osteoarthritis. We report a case of hand arm vibration syndrome in worker exposed to hand arm vibration diagnosed objectively by skin emperature, vibration sens changes and upper extremity angiogrphy.
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