Environmental exposure to asbestos and risk of pleural mesothelioma: review and meta-analysis
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 16 (5) , 411-417
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007691003600
Abstract
A number of epidemiological studies have addressed the risk of pleural mesothelioma from environmental (household and neighborhood) exposure to asbestos, but no overall risk estimate is available. We...Keywords
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