Nonasbestos ferruginous bodies in sputum from a patient with graphite pneumoconiosis

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 552-554

  Mazzucchelli, Luca ^a,b   Radelfinger, Hans ^a,b   Kraft, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Regional Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Graphite; Pneumoconiosis; Sputum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ASBESTOS; GRAPHITE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029890712     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333914     Document Type: Article

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