Imaging of Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-131

  Akira, Masanori ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KINKI CHUO CHEST MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AMMONIA; BERYLLIUM; CHLORIDE; CHROMIUM; COBALT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IRON OXIDE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; NIOBIUM; NITROGEN OXIDE; PHOSGENE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TITANIUM; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ASBESTOSIS; BERYLLIOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAL WORKER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PLEURA DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WELDING FUME;

HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38949130489     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2007.11.001     Document Type: Review

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