Chest imaging and lung function impairment after long-term occupational exposure to low concentrations of chrysotile

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 84-90

  Spyratos, Dionisios ^a   Chloros, Diamantis ^a   Haidich, Bettina ^a   Dagdilelis, Loukas ^a   Markou, Stamatia ^a   Sichletidis, Lazaros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asbestos; HRCT; Lung function; Occupational lung disease

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CHRYSOTILE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CEMENT INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PLEURA DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ASBESTOSIS; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

AGED; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; ASBESTOSIS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURAL DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPIROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

EID: 84862631925     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2011.578681     Document Type: Article

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