Clusters of Pneumoconiosis among Residents Near Cement Factories |
Leem, Jong-Han
(Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital)
Cho, Jae-Hwa (Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital) Lee, Eui-Cheol (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kosin University Hospital) Kim, Jeong-Hoon (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital) Lee, Dong-Hoon (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital) Lee, Seung-Jun (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital) Lee, Ji-Young (Department of Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Inha University) Kim, Hwan-Cheol (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital) |
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