Occupational lung disease: Part 2. Discovering the cause of diffuse parenchymal lung disease

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 81-88

  Kuschner, Ware G ^a   Stark, Paul ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ASBESTOS; CHLORINE; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE; SILICON;

ANAMNESIS; ASBESTOSIS; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COAL WORKER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSULTATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG BIOPSY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PNEUMONIA; RESPONSIBILITY; SILICOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0037387951     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2003.04.1783     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Wagner GR. Asbestosis and silicosis. Lancet 1997;349(9061):1311-5
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Silicosis deaths among young adults-United States, 1968-1994. JAMA 1998;280(1):13-4
3. Wang X, Yu ITS, Wong TW, et al. Respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function in coal miners: looking into the effects of simple pneumoconiosis. Am J Ind Med 1999;35(2):124-31
4. Finkelstein MM. Silica, silicosis, and lung cancer: a risk assessment. Am J Ind Med 2000;38(1):8-18
5. Levin SM, Kann PE, Lax MB. Medical examination for asbestos-related disease. Am J Ind Med 2000;37(1):6-22
6. National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety. Work-related lung disease surveillance report 1999. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh /pdfs/2000-105.pdf. Accessed Jan 24, 2003
7. Begin R, Samet JM, Shaikh RA. Asbestos. In: Harber P, Schenker MB, Balmes JR, eds. Occupational and environmental respiratory disease. St Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1996:293-329
8. Webb WR, Müller NL, Naidich DP. High-resolution CT of the lung. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1996:109-48
9. Corbett EL, Churchyard GJ, Clayton T, et al. Risk factors for pulmonary mycobacterial disease in South African gold miners: a case-control study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999;159(1):94-9
10. 7 pp 201-15
11. Buschman DL, Gamsu G, Waldron JA Jr, et al. Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: use of CT in diagnosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1992;159(5):957-60
12. Kline JN, Hunninghake GW. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis and pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia. In: Braunwald E, Isselbacher KJ, Fauci AS, et al, eds. Harrison's principles of internal medicine online. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Available at: www.harrisonsonline.com
13. 8 pp 193-225
14. Henneberger PK, Metayer C, Layne LA, et al. Nonfatal work-related inhalations: surveillance data from hospital emergency departments, 1995-1996. Am J Ind Med 2000;38(2):140-8
15. Kuschner WG, Blanc PD. Gases and other inhalants. In: LaDou J, ed. Occupational and environmental medicine. 2nd ed. Stamford, Conn: Appleton & Lange, 1997:571-83
16. Beckett WS. Occupational respiratory diseases. N Engl J Med 2000;342(6):406-13
17. Fishwick D, Bradshaw LM, D'Souza W, et al. Chronic bronchitis, shortness of breath, and airway obstruction by occupation in New Zealand. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997;156(5):1440-6
18. 7 pp 963-71
19. Dewitte J-D, Chan-Yeung M, Malo J-L. Medicolegal and compensation aspects of occupational asthma. Eur Respir J 1994;7(5):969-80