What component of coal causes coal workers' pneumoconiosis?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 462-471

  McCunney, Robert J ^a   Morfeld, Peter ^b,c   Payne, Stephen ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Institute for Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; IRON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SILICOSIS; WORKROOM AIR;

EID: 68049086812     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181a01ada     Document Type: Article

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