CHRONIC PAINTERS SYNDROME - A REANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST DATA IN A GROUP OF DIAGNOSED CASES, BASED ON COMPARISONS WITH MATCHED CONTROLS
CHRONIC PAINTERS SYNDROME - A REANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST DATA IN A GROUP OF DIAGNOSED CASES, BASED ON COMPARISONS WITH MATCHED CONTROLS
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1600-0404.1988.tb05913.x
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发表时间：
1988-04-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
BRUHN, P
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作者：
GADE, A;MORTENSEN, EL;BRUHN, P
Twenty solvent-exposed workers, most of them painters, had been diagnosed as cases of toxic encephalopathy in 1978/79. Two years later they were examined with an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests. Their performance was unchanged on retesting. We have now compared their test results with those of non-exposed control subjects. Previous impressions of significant intellectual impairment in the solvent-exposed patients could not be confirmed when the influence of age, education, and intelligence was taken into consideration. The present group with presumed toxic encephalopathy is assumed to be representative of other patients who were similarly diagnosed in our department. The presently reanalyzed cases had been diagnosed as brain damaged and reported as such in the literature. Thus, they may contributed to the formation of the concept of the "chronic painters'' syndrome" with dementia.
