Silicosis in Workers Exposed to Artificial Quartz Conglomerates: Does It Differ From Chronic Simple Silicosis?;Silicosis en trabajadores expuestos a conglomerados artificiales de cuarzo: ¿es distinta a la silicosis crónica simple?

Archivos de Bronconeumologia

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2015, Pages e57-e60

  Paolucci, Valentina ^a   Romeo, Riccardo ^a   Sisinni, Antonietta Gerardina ^a   Bartoli, Dusca ^b   Mazzei, Maria Antonietta ^a   Sartorelli, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b AUSL 11   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid; HRCT; Quartz conglomerates; Silicosis

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CASE REPORT; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHALATION; LYMPHOCYTE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; QUARTZ CONGLOMERATE; ROCK; SILICOSIS; WORKER; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUARTZ; SILICOSIS;

EID: 84945400021     PISSN: 03002896     EISSN: 15792129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arbres.2014.12.010     Document Type: Article

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