Investigation of Idiopathic Pleural Effusions by Thoracoscopy
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Investigation of idiopathic pleural effusions by thoracoscopy.
The African labour force employed by the goldmining industry in South Africa is recruited from an area covering the whole sub-continent from Tanganyika in the north to the Transkei in the Cape Province. The majority of these labourers are migrants, returning home for varying lengths of time between periods of mine service, which on the average last two years. Any African mine labourer suspected...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.11.4.324