Revisiting epidemiological key studies on occupational diesel exhaust exposure and lung cancer in truck drivers

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1045-1078

  Stöber, Werner ^a   Abel, Ulrich R ^b   McClellan, Roger O ^a  

^a CIIT CENTERS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 0032409497     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/089583798197286     Document Type: Article

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