Environmental Pollutants: Radon

Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, Four-Volume Set

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 120-125

  Rosario, A S ^a   Wichmann, H E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attributable risk; DNA damage; Environmental pollutants; Epidemiology; Ionizing radiation; Lung cancer; Occupational diseases; Radon; Smoking; Tumors

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349132104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-370879-6/00135-6     Document Type: Chapter

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