Hard metal lung disease diagnosed on a transbronchial lung biopsy following recurrent contact dermatitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 139-143

  Nakamura, Yasukiyo ^a,b   Nishizaka, Yasuo ^a   Ariyasu, Ryo ^a   Okamoto, Natsumi ^a   Yoshida, Masanori ^a   Taki, Masato ^a   Nagano, Hiroaki ^a,c   Hanaoka, Kenji ^a   Nakagawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Yoshimura, Chie ^a   Wakayama, Toshiaki ^a   Amitani, Ryoichi ^a,d  

^a OSAKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TAKATSUKI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital   (Japan)

^d TAKAMATSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact dermatitis; Hard metal lung disease; Patch test

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IRON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXYGEN; SILICON; TUNGSTEN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CONTACT DERMATITIS; HARD METAL LUNG DISEASE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BIOPSY; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COBALT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG; MALE; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; RECURRENCE; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 84892568743     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.53.1019     Document Type: Article

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