Metal Fume Fever and Metal-Related Lung Disease

Hamilton and Hardy's Industrial Toxicology: Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 289-300

  Truncale, Thomas ^a  

^a Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphylactoid reaction; Asthma; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP); Metal fume fever (MFF); Metal induced lung cancer; Pneumoconiosis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GLASS; GLASS INDUSTRY; PULMONARY DISEASES;

ANAPHYLACTOID REACTION; ASTHMA; HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS (HP); LUNG CANCER; PNEUMOCONIOSIS;

METALS;

EID: 85018205041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118834015.ch40     Document Type: Chapter

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