Environmental diseases

Sang Baek Koh

doi:10.5124/jkma.2012.55.3.212

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Environmental diseases

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Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2012; 55(3): 212-213.

Published online: March 09, 2012

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5124/jkma.2012.55.3.212

Environmental diseases

Sang Baek Koh, MD^1,²

¹Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.

²Institute of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.

Corresponding author: Sang Baek Koh, kohhj@yonsei.ac.kr

Received February 17, 2012 Accepted February 22, 2012

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