Artificial stone-associated silicosis: a rapidly emerging occupational lung disease
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1351-0711,1470-7926
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2017-104428