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Chest radiography in dust-exposed miners: promise and problems, potential and imperfections.

Wagner GR; Attfield MD; Parker JE

Occup Med: State of the Art Rev 1993 Jan; 8(1):127-141

00213424

The uses and limitations of chest radiography in the study, surveillance, screening, and clinical diagnosis of occupational lung diseases in dust exposed miners were reviewed and discussed. Miners' lung diseases detectable by radiography were discussed, including silicosis, obstructive airways disease, bronchitis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, and asbestos (1332214) related diseases, as well as the use of radiography in epidemiology, surveillance, medical screening, and clinical evaluations in miners. Methodological issues in radiographic interpretation included standardization of reporting and recording, film quality and technique, reader skills and attitudes, reader variability, insensitivity of radiographs to pneumoconiosis, and reading for disease progression. Future directions of study were discussed, including changes in imaging technology for pneumoconiosis detection and changes in the classification system.

NIOSH-Author; Underground-mining; Coal-miners; Dust-inhalation; Respiratory-system-disorders; Radiodiagnosis; Diagnostic-techniques; Chest-X-rays; Mine-workers

SAOME4

1332-21-4

19930101

Journal Article

Banks DE

1993

9781560531296

1

0885-114X

DRDS

Respiratory-system-disorders

Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. The Mining Industry

WV