Mortality of workers employed in the manufacture of chlordane and heptachlor

Journal of Occupational Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1979, Pages 745-748

  Wang, Helen H ^a,b   MacMahon, Brian ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; HEPTACHLOR;

CANCER; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN CELL; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WORKER;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHLORDAN; HEPTACHLOR; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018575791     PISSN: 00961736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-197911000-00008     Document Type: Article

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