| Document ID (ISN) | 77986 |
| CIS number |
02-187 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1775-8785 - Archives des maladies professionnelles |
| Year |
2000 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Marquet M., Legrand C., Furon D. |
| Title |
Interstitial lung fibrosis among coal miners |
| Original title |
Fibrose interstitielle pulmonaire chez le mineur de charbon [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Nov. 2000, Vol.61, No.7, p.485-490. Illus. 13 ref. |
| Abstract |
The retired miners of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal fields with pneumoconiosis have been regularly followed up for twenty years in the context of a post-occupational medical surveillance program. These medical observations revealed an unusually-high number of cases of interstitial lung fibrosis evolving independently from pneumoconiosis. This larger study of 7,770 coal workers confirmed the high incidence of such cases (close to 1%) and allowed to validate the diagnostic approach based on commonly-practiced screening examinations (clinical examination, radiological examination and respiratory function testing). Results raise the issue of the acceptance of the occupational origin of this coal workers pathology, and suggest that special attention be paid to other occupational exposures to dust with free silica. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
silica; coal mining; silicosis; pulmonary fibrosis |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
long-term study; chest radiography; frequency rates; respiratory function tests |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | France |
| Subject(s) |
Mines and quarries
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Mining and quarrying
Pneumoconioses
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
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