TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Coal Workers’ Lung Diseases and Silicosis
A1  - Stansbury, Robert C.
A1  - Sangani, Rahul G.
A1  - Parker, John E.
A2  - Grippi, Michael A.
A2  - Antin-Ozerkis, Danielle E.
A2  - Dela Cruz, Charles S.
A2  - Kotloff, Robert M.
A2  - Kotton, Camille Nelson
A2  - Pack, Allan I.
PY  - 2023
T2  - Fishman’s Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 6e
AB  - Coal  miners  are  at  risk  for  developing  several  distinct  clinical  illnesses  in  relation  to  their  occupational  exposures.  Historically,  some  names  applied  to  these  conditions  were  miners’  asthma,  phthisis,  anthracosis,  and  in  Scotland,  miners’  black  lung.  It  was  recognized  early  that  these  afflictions  were  related  to  the  occupation  of  mining;  however,  it  was  not  until  the  development  of  specialized  techniques  such  as  chest  radiography,  pulmonary  function  testing,  the  discovery  of  the  tubercle  bacillus,  and  sophisticated  histologic  examination  of  tissue  that  respiratory  diseases  affecting  miners  could  be  separated  and  defined.  Advances  in  the  understanding  of  respiratory  health  issues  in  coal  miners  have  focused  on  the  spectrum  of  disease  caused  by  inhalation  of  coal  mine  dust,  termed  coal  mine  dust  lung  disease  (CMDLD).1  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195010087
ER  -