Asbestos fibre dimensions and lung cancer mortality among workers exposed to chrysotile

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 580-584

  Loomis, Dana ^a   Dement, John ^b   Richardson, David ^c   Wolf, Susanne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS FIBER; CHRYSOTILE;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WORKER;

ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 77956897760     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.050120     Document Type: Article

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