Sulfur mustards laboratory findings

Balali-Mood, M., Taharestani, M., Farhoodi, M., Panjvani, F.K. (1991). Study of clinical and laboratory findings of sulfur mustard in 329 war victims. Med. J. Islam. Repub. Iran 34 7-15. 

Central nervous system and cardiac anomalies have only been seen after extremely high doses of sulfur mustard and usually only in laboratory settings with animal models. Mustard gas casualties from the Iran-Iraq War (1979-1980) treated in Europe did not display severe central nervous system or cardiac abnormalities (Willems, 1989). On the other hand, persistent damage to the afferent nerve system was a common finding in patients suffering cutaneous mustard injuries (Thomsen, Eriksen, Smit-Nielsen, 1998). 

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