Letter to the editor

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Carbone, Roberto G ^a   Terracini, Benedetto ^b   Marinaccio, Alessandro ^c   Montanaro, Fabio ^d   Shah, Pallav ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c ISPESL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ASBESTOSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MORTALITY; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; FEMALE; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA TUMOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ASBESTOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 38849105606     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620801888107     Document Type: Letter

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