Postservice mortality of Air Force veterans occupationally exposed to herbicides during the Vietnam War: 20-Year follow-up results

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 406-413

  Ketchum, Norma S ^a   Michalek, Joel E ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE;

AEROSOL; AIR FORCE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SKIN DISEASE; SOLDIER; VIET NAM; WAR;

EID: 18544374857     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.5.406     Document Type: Article

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