The authors state in their preface that this book was designed mainly to assist the practising
clinician, including the pathologist and radiologist, to keep in touch with the changes in the …

The National lnstitute of Occupational Safety and Health of the US public Health Service
recently completed the first round of a large field study to determine the prevalence of coal …

The relationship between crystalline silica and lung cancer has been the subject of many
recent publications, conferences, and regulatory considerations. An influential, international …

As part of an epidemiologic study, 8,555 bituminous coal miners underwent a limited medical
examination consisting of spirometry, a posteroanterior radiograph of the chest, and a …

When scientific uncertainty limits analytic model-ing, but decision makers cannot wait for better
sci-ence, expert judgment can be used in the interim to inform policy analysis and choice. …

We investigated in vitro NMR properties of bleomycin‐induced alveolitis and pulmonary
fibrosis in 18 Lewis rats (6 controls). When alveolitis or fibrosis had developed, animal lungs …

Scanty irregular opacities are not uncommonly observed on the chest roentgenogram in the
absence of interstitial fibrosis of the lungs. In such circumstances the irregular opacities, …

A cross-sectional study of 788 male employees of an aluminum production company examined
the relationship of radiographic abnormalities to smoking and dust exposure from the …

This study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of radiographic abnormalities consistent
with silicosis in a group of 600 retired granite workers who were receiving pensions. Files …

It has been suggested that the assessment of ventilatory capacity alone is inadequate for
the determination of disabling occupational respiratory impairment in coal miners. The …