Silicosis in India: Past and present

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-168

  Jindal, Surinder Kumar ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

connective tissue diseases; India; interstitial lung disease; lung cancer; occupational lung disease; silico mycosis; silico tuberculosis; silicosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CERAMIC INDUSTRY; CLAY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; COR PULMONALE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST CONTROL; FOUNDRY; GLASS INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDIA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MINING; MORBIDITY; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OXYGEN BREATHING; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SILICOMYCOSIS; SILICOSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

HUMANS; INDIA; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SILICOSIS;

EID: 84873431017     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e32835bb19e     Document Type: Review

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