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Pneumoconiosis
Pneumoconiosis
Classification & external resources
| ICD-10 |
J60.-J65. |
| ICD-9 |
500-505 |
| DiseasesDB |
31746 |
| MeSH |
D011009 |
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust. Depending on the type of dust, variants of the disease are considered.
Types include:
Pneumoconiosis in combination with multiple pulmonary rheumatoid nodules in rheumatoid arthritis patients is known as Caplan's syndrome.[1]
See also
Other Work-related Lung Diseases
Popular culture references
- A longer, factitious term is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
- In the classic British film Brief Encounter (1945), derived from a Noel Coward play, housewife Laura (Celia Johnson) and physician Alec (Trevor Howard) begin an affair. She is desperately mesmerized in a train station lounge by his evocation of his passion for pneumoconioses:
- Laura: “You were saying about the coal mines…”
- Alec: “Oh yes, the inhalation of coal dust…That’s one specific form of the disease. It’s called anthracosis.”
- Laura [Tenderly]: “What are the others?”
- Alec: “Chalicosis. That comes from metal dust. Steel works, you know…”
- Laura [Breathlessly]: “Yes, of course… Steel works…”
- Alec: “And silicosis… That’s stone dust… Gold mines…”
- Laura [Almost swooning]: “I see…”
- Bell rings
- Laura: “There’s your train.”
- Alec: “Yes.”
- Laura: “You mustn’t miss it.”
- Alec: “No.”
- In the film Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller, he claims to have "The Black Lung" after working in a coal mine for one day.
References
- ^ Andreoli, Thomas, ed. CECIL Essentials of Medicine. Saunders: Pennsylvania, 2004. p. 737.
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