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Clinical and Functional Aspects of Occupational Chest Diseases

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Identifying, characterizing, and quantifying occupational lung disease based largely on radiographic evidence has logically been a priority, but clearly the toxic or allergic factor must be defined as well as the resulting impairment of lung function following dust inhalation. It is the intent of this chapter to define the clinical characteristics of these diseases and to describe the physiological consequences of inhaling the noxious materials.

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Golden, J.A., Baum, G.L. (1989). Clinical and Functional Aspects of Occupational Chest Diseases. In: Solomon, A., Kreel, L. (eds) Radiology of Occupational Chest Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3574-3_3

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