Radon in indoor spaces: an underestimated risk factor for lung cancer in environmental medicine.

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Published in Dtsch Arztebl Int on March 19, 2010

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Klaus Schmid1, Torsten Kuwert, Hans Drexler

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1: Institut für Arbeits-, Sozial- und Umweltmedizin der Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. klaus.schmid@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de

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