Acta Med. 2003, 46: 25-29

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2019.5

Health Risk of Occupational Exposure in Welding Processes I. Genotoxic Risk

Lenka Borskáa, Zdeněk Fialab, Jindra Šmejkalováb, Jaroslav Tejralb

aCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Institute of Pathological Physiology, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
bCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Institute of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Received November 1, 2002
Accepted January 1, 2003

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