The Pathology of Pneumoconiosis

The Pathology of Pneumoconiosis

The Pathology of Pneumoconiosis

The conflict of living matter with the mineral world: The pneumoconioses.

Aluminum welding fume-induced pneumoconiosis.

Chronic exposure to high concentrations of fumes during aluminum arc welding causes a severe pneumoconiosis characterized by diffuse pulmonary accumulation of aluminum metal and a corresponding reduction in lung function. Aluminum fume-induced pneumoconiosis is a rarely reported entity, of which the true incidence is unknown. We report the clinical, radiographic, microscopic, and microanalytic ...

Serum protein fractions in rheumatoid pneumoconiosis without arthritis.

Fractionation of the serum proteins by filter-paper electrophoresis in 14 coal-miners who had the characteristic radiological opacities of rheumatoid pneumoconiosis but no evidence of rheumatoid arthritis showed a reduction in the mean level of albumin and increases in the alpha-2 and gamma-globulins compared with the values in non-arthritic miners with simple coal-workers' pneumoconiosis and i...