Essential problems in the interpretation of epidemiologic evidence for an association between mobile phone use and brain tumours;Difficultés essentielles dans l'Interprétation des preuves épidémiologiques en faveur d'une association entre utilisation du téléphone mobile et tumeur du cerveau.

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 11, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 556-563

  Kundi, Michael ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; Epidemiology; Mobile phones; Tumour latency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951943600     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.01.014     Document Type: Short Survey

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