Assessment of the incidence and risk factors of coal-worker’s pneumoconiosis (CWP) in Silesia,Poland.

R. Zlotkowska (Sosnowiec, Poland), A. Mroczek (Bytom, Poland)

Source: International Congress 2018 – Occupational and environmental lung diseases: influence on the airway and interstitium

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