Asbestos kills -no matter how you cut the data

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 187-188

  Smith, Derek R ^a   Beh, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOS FIBER; CHRYSOTILE; SERPENTINE;

ASBESTOSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG FUNCTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MESOTHELIOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84869034923     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2012.675791     Document Type: Editorial

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