Risk assessment of lung cancer and asbestosis in workers exposed to asbestos fibers in brake shoe factory in Iran

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-42

  Azari, Mansour R ^a   Nasermoaddeli, Ali ^a   Movahadi, Mohammad ^a   Mehrabi, Yadollah ^a   Hatami, Hossein ^a   Soori, Hamid ^a   Moshfegh, Elaheh ^a   Ramazni, Behnam ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asbestos fibers; Asbestosis and lung cancer; Occupational monitoring; Risk assessment; Risk criteria

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOTILE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CAR; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; IRAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; ASBESTOSIS; AUTOMOBILES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; IRAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249143959     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.48.38     Document Type: Article

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