| Document ID (ISN) | 40429 |
| CIS number |
83-1656 |
| ISBN(s) |
0-407-33731-8 |
| Year |
1982 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Parkes W.R. |
| Title |
Occupational lung disorders |
| Bibliographic information |
Butterworth Group, Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 8PH, United Kingdom, 1982, 529p. Illus. Bibl. Price: £68.00. |
| Abstract |
This practical guide is intended to serve as a reference book for clinicians, industrial medical officers, radiologists, pathologists, and occupational health students. Contents: introduction; geology and geochemistry; inhaled particles and their fate in the lungs; pathogenesis and pathology; the chest radiograph; inert dust; diseases due to free silica; pneumoconiosis due to coal and carbon; silicates and lung disease; beryllium disease; disorders caused by organic agents; occupational asthma including byssinosis; non-neoplastic disorders due to metallic, chemical and physical agents; lung cancer and occupation. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupational diseases; respirable dust; pneumoconiosis; lung diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
pulmonary aspergillosis; pathogenesis; chronic bronchitis; metals; beryllium; metalloids; silica; zoonoses; pathology; byssinosis; bagassosis; asthma; emphysema; farmer's lung; lung cancer; inert dust; berylliosis; chemical products; manuals; physiology of respiratory system; immunology; chest radiography; coalworkers pneumoconiosis; bird breeders lung |
| 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) |
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Zoonoses
Pneumoconioses
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