RESTRICTIVE HUT LUNG: A CASE OF DOMESTICALLY-ACQUIRED PNEUMOCONIOSIS WITH A SEVERE RESTRICTIVE PATTERN
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Should hut lung be called domestically acquired particulate lung disease or domestically acquired pneumoconiosis?
Indoor air pollution appears to be a major environmental and public health hazard for large numbers of the underdeveloped world's population. A detailed environmental history is important for making diagnosis in most individuals from foreign rural settings with nonspecific respiratory symptoms. In this report, we describe an illustrative case of domestically acquired particulate lung disease (D...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chest
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0012-3692
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.08.1580