Artificial stone dust-induced functional and inflammatory abnormalities in exposed workers monitored quantitatively by biometrics

ERJ Open Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ophir, Noa ^a,b   Shai, Amir Bar ^a   Alkalay, Yifat ^a   Israeli, Shani ^a   Korenstein, Rafi ^b   Kramer, Mordechai R ^b   Fireman, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 85017477202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23120541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00086-2015     Document Type: Article

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