Diagnostic value of high resolution computed tomography in the assessment of nodular changes in pneumoconiosis in foundry workers in Lublin

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 279-284

  Mosiewicz, Jerzy ^a   Myśliński, Wojciech ^a   Złomaniec, Grazyna ^a   Czabak Garbacz, Róza ^a   Krupski, Witold ^a   Dzida, Grzegorz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Foundry workers' pneumoconiosis; High resolution computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUST; FEMALE; FOUNDRY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POLAND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; IRON; LUNG; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POLAND; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11244349124     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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