Case report: Lung disease in world trade center responders exposed to dust and smoke: Carbon nanotubes found in the lungs of world trade center patients and dust samples

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-504

  Wu, Maoxin ^a   Gordon, Ronald E ^a   Herbert, Robin ^a   Padilla, Maria ^a   Moline, Jacqueline ^a   Mendelson, David ^a   Litle, Virginia ^a,c   Travis, William D ^b   Gil, Joan ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchiolitis; Carbon nanotubes; Interstitial lung disease; Small airway disease; WTC

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBON NANOTUBE; CHRYSOTILE; MAGNESIUM SILICATE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DUST EXPOSURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SATIETY; SMALL AIRWAY DISEASE; SMOKE; TERRORISM; VICTIM; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SMOKE;

EID: 77951685881     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901159     Document Type: Article

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