Debilitating lung disease among surface coal miners with no underground mining tenure

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 62-67

  Halldin, Cara N ^a   Reed, William R ^b   Joy, Gerald J ^b   Colinet, Jay F ^b   Rider, James P ^b   Petsonk, Edward L ^a   Abraham, Jerrold L ^c   Wolfe, Anita L ^a   Storey, Eileen ^a   Laney, A Scott ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; SILICON DIOXIDE; TITANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAL WORKER; CONTRACT; DISEASE COURSE; DUST; EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PROGRESSIVE MASSIVE FIBROSIS; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; ANTHRACOSIS; COAL MINING; COMPLICATION; INTERVIEW; LUNG TUMOR; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTHRACOSILICOSIS; COAL MINING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 84921507871     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000302     Document Type: Article

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