| Document ID (ISN) | 38150 |
| CIS number |
82-1374 |
| Year |
1982 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Duffaure M. |
| Title |
Two cases of berylliosis |
| Original title |
A propos de deux cas de bérylliose [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Université de Paris VI, Faculté de médecine Broussais-Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France, 1982. 65p. 87 ref. |
| Abstract |
This medical thesis covers: general information on beryllium; physical and chemical properties; extraction techniques, industrial uses, review of beryllium epidemiology, presentation of 2 cases of pulmonary berylliosis (one due to the inhalation of airborne beryllium dust and the other following work in a shop manufacturing and machining copper-beryllium alloy tubes). Review of the literature on this occupational disease: experimental lesions; immunological mechanisms; research on the carcinogenic action of beryllium; clinical features of acute and chronic poisoning; treatment; prevention; compensation in France. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
beryllium and compounds; berylliosis; respirable dust |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
reactors; case study; France; beryllium; fluorescent tubes; exposure tests; thesis; aircraft industry; immunology; electronics industry; diagnosis |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Inorganic substances
Pneumoconioses
Electronics industry
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