Strengthening the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program
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Radiographic features of importance in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-administered Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program: characterising the use of the ‘other symbols’
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1076-2752
DOI: 10.1097/jom.0000000000000993