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

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• Personal Author:
  Attfield MD ; Parker, John E. ; Wagner, Gregory R.
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Diagnosis Dust Mining Occupational Health Radiography Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; Underground-mining; Coal-miners; Dust-inhalation; Respiratory-system-disorders; Radiodiagnosis; Diagnostic-techniques; Chest-X-rays; Mine-workers
• ISBN:
  9781560531296
• ISSN:
  0885-114X
• Publisher:
  Hanley and Belfus, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  127-141
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00213424
• Citation:
  Occup Med: State of the Art Rev 1993 Jan; 8(1):127-141
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Editor(s):
  Banks DE
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• NORA Priority Area:
  Pulmonary System Disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. The Mining Industry
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/243246/cdc_243246_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]