Relationships Between Heavy Metal Distribution and Cancer Mortality Rates in the Campania Region, Italy

Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 387-400

  Albanese, Stefano ^a   De Luca, Maria Luisa ^a   De Vivo, Benedetto ^a   Lima, Annamaria ^a   Grezzi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

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EID: 84882458958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53159-9.00016-4     Document Type: Chapter

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