Occupational Lung Disease: A Radiologic Review

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-52

  Pipavath, Sudhakar N J ^a   Godwin, J David ^a   Kanne, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; BERYLLIUM; COBALT; SILICON DIOXIDE; TUNGSTEN;

ACCELARATED SILICOSIS; ACUTE SILICOSIS; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; ATELECTASIS; BERYLLIOSIS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; COAL WORKER PNEUMOCONIOSIS; COMPLICATED SILICOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXPOSURE; EXUDATIVE PLEURISY; HARD METAL LUNG DISEASE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG NODULE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA PLAQUE; PLEURA THICKENING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SIDEROSIS; SILICOSIS; SIMPLE SILICOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70449940238     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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