Short- and long-term morbidity and mortality in the population exposed to dioxin after the "Seveso accident"

Industrial Health

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 127-138

  Pesatori, Angela Cecilia ^a   Consonni, Dario ^a   Bachetti, Silvia ^a   Zocchetti, Carlo ^a   Bonzini, Matteo ^a   Baccarelli, Andrea ^a   Bertazzi, Pier Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dioxins; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DIOXIN;

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHLORACNE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0043172481     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.41.127     Document Type: Review

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