Anthophyllite exposure and endemic pleural plaques in Kumamoto, Japan

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 392-397

  Hiraoka, Takesuke ^a,e   Ohkura, Masanori ^a   Morinaga, Kenji ^b   Kohyama, Norihiko ^c   Shimazu, Kazuyoshi ^a   Ando, Masayuki ^d  

^a National Kumamoto Minami Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^c NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e National Hospital Organization Miyazaki Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthophyllite; Asbestos exposure; Environmental exposure; Mass screening; Pleural plaques

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS FIBER;

CANCER; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLEURA PLAQUE; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY FILM;

JAPAN; KUMAMOTO; KYUSHU;

EID: 0031723510     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.360     Document Type: Article

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