Newly Recognized Occupational and Environmental Causes of Chronic Terminal Airways and Parenchymal Lung Disease

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 667-680

  Sauler, Maor ^a   Gulati, Mridu ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

"Popcorn worker's lung"; Diffuse parenchymal lung disease; Flavorings related lung disease; Indium lung; Nanoparticles; Nylon flock worker's lung; Occupational lung disease; World Trade Center lung

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; 8 ISOPROSTANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR ANTIBODY; INDIUM; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; KL 6 PROTEIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NANOPARTICLE; OSTEOPONTIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YKL 40 PROTEIN;

BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DETERIORATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIUM LUNG; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NYLON FLOCK WORKER LUNG; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATHOGENESIS; POPCORN WORKER LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIACETYL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INDIUM; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; NANOPARTICLES; NYLONS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS;

EID: 84869230059     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: 15578216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2012.09.002     Document Type: Review

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