Occupational Asthma Reference

Sluis-Cremer GK, Du Toit RSJ, Pneumoconiosis in Chromite Miners in South Africa, Br J Industr Med, 1968;25:63-67,

Keywords: chromite, South Africa, pneumoconiosis, CXR

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Abstract

Ten chromite miners in South Africa have been found to show radiological evidence of a fine nodulation; ive of these miners had worked only in chromite mines. These cases occurred in a labour force of some I,500 persons subjected to regular examination. Clinical evidence and the esults of intratracheal injection of chromite suspension into rats indicate that the radiological changes are due not to fibrosis but to a benign deposition of chromite (Cr2O3FeO) dust in the lungs.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1008663/pdf/brjindmed00113-0069.pdf

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