Pleural plaque profiles on the chest radiographs and ct scans of asbestos-exposed Japanese construction workers

Industrial Health

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 626-633

  Elshazley, Momen ^a,h   Shibata, Eiji ^b   Hisanaga, Naomi ^c   Ichihara, Gaku ^a   Ewis, Ashraf A ^d   Kamijima, Michihiro ^e   Ichihara, Sahoko ^f   Sakai, Kiyoshi ^g   Sato, Mitsuo ^a   Kondo, Masashi ^a   Hasegawa, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NAGOYA CITY PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Chest radiograph; Construction workers; CT scan; Pleural plaques

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA; PLEURA DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ASBESTOS; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054766237     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1268     Document Type: Article

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