Asbestos lung fibre concentrations in South African chrysotile mine workers

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 473-477

  Rees, David ^a   Phillips, James I ^a   Garton, Estelle ^a   Pooley, Fred D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Chrysolite; Lung content; South Africa; Tremolite

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CHRYSOTILE; TREMOLITE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG LOBE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA PLAQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TISSUE LEVEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0034890961     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4878(00)00088-0     Document Type: Article

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