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MedicineCadmiumCadmium poisoningEnvironmental healthMetallurgy
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- Year
- 1950
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 240
- Pages
- 1-124
- Citations
- 202
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Leif Friberg
(1950).
Health hazards in the manufacture of alkaline accumulators with special reference to chronic cadmium poisoning; a clinical and experimental study..
PubMed
, 240
, 1-124.