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J C Helmkamp1, W J Lundstrom

  • 1Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506-9151, USA.

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
|February 29, 2000
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