Analysis and relevance of asbestos burden in tissue

Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 39-90

  Dodson, Ronald F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

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