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Document ID (ISN)70304
CIS number 97-1893
ISSN - Serial title 1250-3274 - Archives des maladies professionnelles et de médecine du travail
Year 1997
Convention or series no.
Title Medical monitoring of workers exposed to asbestos - Special session of the French Society of Occupational Medicine on 26 October 1996
Original title Surveillance médicale des salariés exposés à l'amiante - Séance spéciale de la Société française de médecine du travail du 26 octobre 1996 [in French]
Bibliographic information Nov. 1997, Vol.58, No.7, p.567-594. Illus. Bibl.ref.
Abstract Proceedings of the special session of the French Society of Occupational Medicine on medical monitoring of workers exposed to asbestos (26 October 1996). Contents: asbestos and occupational health; health hazards of the main types of exposure to asbestos; risk assessment methodology in occupational medicine; chest X-ray surveillance; physiological findings in asbestos diseases; the contribution of inorganic analysis of biological samples; strategy of medical control screening for bronchial cancer.
Descriptors (primary) asbestos; occupational medicine; medical supervision; hazard evaluation
Descriptors (secondary) France; lung cancer; bronchial cancer
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceFrance
Subject(s) Generalities
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Risk evaluation
Asbestos