Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 9 , Pages 1350-1357 , September 2009

Spirometry, Impulse Oscillometry and Capnovolumetry in welders and healthy male subjects

  • Monika Gube

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Pauwelsstr. 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
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  • Peter Brand

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Pauwelsstr. 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 241 8088059; fax: +49 241 8082587.
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  • Angela Conventz

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Pauwelsstr. 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
    • ,
  • Joachim Ebel

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Pauwelsstr. 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
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  • Thomas Goeen

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schillerstr. 29, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
    • ,
  • Karl Holzinger

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, ISF – Welding and Joining Institute, Pontstraße 49D-52062 Aachen, Germany
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  • Alice Müller-Lux

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Pauwelsstr. 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
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  • Uwe Reisgen

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, ISF – Welding and Joining Institute, Pontstraße 49D-52062 Aachen, Germany
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  • Thomas Schettgen

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Pauwelsstr. 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
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  • Thomas Kraus

      Affiliations

    • RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Pauwelsstr. 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany

Received 30 September 2008 ,Accepted 16 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.03.011

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 9 , Pages 1350-1357 , September 2009

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