New developments in asbestos-related pleural disease

Thorax

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 210-216

  Rudd, Robin M ^a  

^a LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ASBESTOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030023480     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.51.2.210     Document Type: Review

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