Clinical perspective of inorganic dusts, metals, and fumes exposures

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-214

  Skarote, Samuel J ^a   Banks, Daniel E ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

AIR POLLUTANT; HUMAN; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; REVIEW;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; METALS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS;

EID: 0031138044     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063198-199705000-00005     Document Type: Article

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