Delayed onset sandstone pneumoconiosis: A case report

✍ Scribed by H. Symanski

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 118 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-3586
• DOI: 10.1002/ajim.4700020204

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An unusual case of silicosis is described in a worker who inhaled the dust of pure silica while working in a sandstone quarry. The exposure lasted only eight years. In 1980, 45 years after exposure ceased, severe clinical manifestations of silicosis appeared for the first time. The chest X‐ray showed a pneumoconiosis A 2mn/A2 Mn Cor, em, hilus, based on the International Classification of Geneva, 1958. A diagnosis of sandstone pneumoconiosis was made. The case is one further example of late‐occurring disease appearing after a latency of several decades.