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Query: UMLS:C0032273 (
pneumoconiosis
)
1,578
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
An unusual case of silicosis is described in a worker who inhaled the dust of pure silica while working in a sandstone quarry. The exposure lasted only eight years. In 1980, 45 years after exposure ceased, severe clinical manifestations of silicosis appeared for the first time. The chest X-ray showed a
pneumoconiosis
A 2mn/A2 Mn
Cor
, em, hilus, based on the International Classification of Geneva, 1958. A diagnosis of sandstone
pneumoconiosis
was made. The case is one further example of late-occurring disease appearing after a latency of several decades.
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PMID:Delayed onset sandstone pneumoconiosis: a case report. 629 42
