Health effects in underground uranium miners

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 331-344

  Hornung, Richard W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; URANIUM;

EID: 33748973748     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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