Chemical pneumonitis and acute lung injury caused by inhalation of nickel fumes

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2035-2038

  Kunimasa, Kei ^a   Arita, Machiko ^a   Tachibana, Hiromasa ^a   Tsubouchi, Kazuya ^a   Konishi, Satoshi ^a   Korogi, Yohei ^a   Nishiyama, Akihiro ^a   Ishida, Tadashi ^a  

^a KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Chemical pneumonitis; Nickel fumes

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NICKEL; PREDNISOLONE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; ZINC;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WELDING;

EID: 80052850106     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.5557     Document Type: Article

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