Respiratory hazards: clinical and functional assessment in aluminum industry workers
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OBJECTIVES Summarizing the knowledge status, including the morphology, possible etiological factors, and clinical expression of aluminum potroom asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease related to aluminum potroom exposure. METHODS A review of the literature from the last two decades as it appears in PubMed. RESULTS There is substantial evidence for the existence of potroom asthma, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0422-7638
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcdt.2016.01.004