Mortality from leukemia and other diseases among workers at a petroleum refinery.

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Published in J Occup Med on February 01, 1989

Authors

C Wongsrichanalai1, E Delzell, P Cole

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Public Health 35294.

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