Review: Occupational and environmental lung disease

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-125

  Singh, Navdeep ^a   Davis, Gerald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAL WORKER; COMORBIDITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NYLON FIBER; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEXTILE WORKER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036172235     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063198-200203000-00007     Document Type: Review

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