Upper lobe-dominant pulmonary fibrosis showing deposits of hard metal component in the fibrotic lesions

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 2143-2145

  Kaneko, Yoshiko ^a   Kikuchi, Norihiro ^a   Ishii, Yukio ^a   Kawabata, Yoshinori ^b   Moriyama, Hiroshi ^c   Terada, Masaki ^c   Suzuki, Eiichi ^d   Kobayashi, Masayoshi ^e   Watanabe, Kouichi ^e   Hizawa, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center ^*  (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron probe microanalysis; Hard metal; Pneumoconiosis; Pulmonary fibrosis; Upper lobe

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TUNGSTEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; VITAL CAPACITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALLOYS; COBALT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 77958110108     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3801     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Cugell DW. The hard metal disease. Occup Lung Dis 13: 269-279, 1992.
2. Yousem SA. Pulmonary apical cap: a distinctive but poorly recognized lesion in pulmonary surgical pathology. Am J Surg Pathol 25: 679-683, 2001.
3. Bech AO, Kipling MD, Heather JC. Hard metal diseases. Br J Industr Med 19: 239-252, 1962.
4. Moriyama H, Kobayashi M, Takada T, et al. Two-dimensional analysis of elements and mononuclear cells in hard metal lung disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176: 70-77, 2007.
5. Kitamura M, Kitamura H, Tozawa T, Kimura Y. Cemented tungsten carbide pneumoconiosis. Acta Pathol Jpn 28: 921-935, 1978.
6. Amitani R, Niimi A, Kuse F. Idiopathic pulmonary upper lobe fibrosis (IPUF). Kokyu (Respiration Research) 11: 693-699, 1992 (in Japanese).
7. Frankel SK, Cool CD, Lynch DA, Brown KK. Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: description of a novel clinicopathologic entity. Chest 126: 2007-2013, 2004.
8. Potolicchio I, Mosconi G, Forni A, et al. Susceptibility to hard metal lung disease is strongly associated with the presence of glutamate 69 in HLA-DP beta chain. Eur J Immunol 27: 2741-2743, 1997.