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Multi-slice spiral computerized tomography image characteristics of coal workers with pneumoconiosis
BackgroundMulti-slice spiral computerized tomography (MSCT) can be used as an auxiliary diagnosis of chest radiography in diagnosis of pneumoconiosis, but there are few studies on the correlations between interstitial images and stage classification of ...
Xinyu LI +8 more
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Determining Thresholds for Computer‐Aided Detection for Silicosis—An Analytic Approach
ABSTRACT Background Computer‐aided detection (CAD) is emerging as an adjunct to the use of the chest X‐ray (CXR) in screening for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). CAD for silicosis, a fibrotic lung disease due to silica dust and a strong risk factor for TB, is at an earlier stage of development and, unlike TB, depends on expert human reading for validation.
Stephen Barker +4 more
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Background Pneumoconiosis may play an important role in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the complication of COPD may impose a heavy burden of illness.
Yating Peng +8 more
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A Diagnostic Mimic of Lung Cancer: Nodular Pulmonary Amyloidosis Presenting With Cystic Changes
A 62‐year‐old man with coal workers' pneumoconiosis and a heavy smoking history presented with progressive respiratory symptoms and cystic lung lesions. Surgical biopsy revealed localised AL (kappa) nodular pulmonary amyloidosis, highlighting the need to consider amyloidosis in the differential diagnosis of cystic lung disease with indeterminate ...
Supriya Peshin +6 more
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Introduction Information on the changes of pulmonary function and the right cardiac structure in patients with coal worker’s pneumoconiosis in China is very scarce.
Lu-Qin Bian +3 more
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A short history of the toxicology of inhaled particles [PDF]
Particle toxicology arose in order to understand the mechanisms of adverse effects of 3 major particle types that had historically exerted the greatest toll of ill-health—quartz, coal and asbestos. By the middle of the last century rat inhalation studies
Anthony Seaton +2 more
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Characteristics of occupational pneumoconiosis patients in a district of Hangzhou from 1968 to 2023
BackgroundPneumoconiosis is the leading occupational disease affecting the health of the occupational population in China, and the number of new cases is still the highest.
Baiwang DING +5 more
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Risk factors and preventive measures for occupational diseases in dental technicians [PDF]
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Kostić Milena +2 more
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Assessment and Characterization of Airborne Dust in Coal Surface Mine [PDF]
Now a day’s dust pollution is the major environmental issue inside an opencast mine, which has various effects on human life. There are a number of fugitive sources, and activities which cause dust pollution inside an opencast mine eg.
Kumar, Prashant, Padhi, Aswini Kumar
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