Asbestos Related Disorders
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Asbestos-related disorders. A realistic perspective.
difficulty. First, since asbestosis is a dose-related disease and workplace asbestos exposures have decreased over the last several decades, past occurrence data for asbestosis do not apply to present cohorts.1 Second, the clinical diagnosis of asbestosis encompasses criteria of variable specificity.2 Therefore, the frequency of diagnosing asbestosis varies inversely with the degree of specific...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Respiratory Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 1198-2241
DOI: 10.1155/1994/646547