Radiological findings, pulmonary function and dyspnea in underground coal miners

Respiration

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-87

  Bauer, Torsten T ^a,b   Heyer, Christoph M ^b   Duchna, Hans Werner ^a   Andreas, Kirsten ^a   Weber, Andreas ^b   Schmidt, Ernst Wilhelm ^c   Ammenwerth, Wim ^a   Schultze Werninghaus, Gerhard ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c Clinic for Internal Medicine IV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic bronchitis; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Occupational lung disease; Pneumoconiosis

Indexed keywords

COAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COAL WORKER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMPHYSEMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

COAL MINING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845807860     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090200     Document Type: Article

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