Radiation doses and cause-specific mortality among workers at a nuclear materials fabrication plant.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on February 01, 1988

Authors

H Checkoway1, N Pearce, D J Crawford-Brown, D L Cragle

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill.

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