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acute silicosis (silicoproteinosis)
Epidemiology:
1) rare
2) ceramic workers, silica workers & tunneling operators at highest risk
Pathology: pulmonary silicoproteinosis
Radiology:
- chest X-ray
- chest C
- ground glass, upper field alveolar or fibrotic-appearing infiltrates
General
silicosis
References
Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed)
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 758