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Three experienced physician readers assessed the chest radiographs of 743 men from a coal mining community in West Virginia for the signs of simple pneumoconiosis, using the ILO U/C 1971 Classification of Radiographs of the Pneumoconioses. The number of films categorised by each reader as showing
A cross-sectional radiological survey of 2,245 men who were employed in South African asbestos mines was conducted in 1976. Since 1976, the lungs of 172 of these men who died have been examined to establish the presence of asbestosis or other pneumoconiosis. The x-ray readings (ILO/UC 1971) were
BACKGROUND
Mining operations conducted at high altitudes provide health challenges for workers as well as for medical personnel.
OBJECTIVE
To review the literature regarding adverse health effects and toxic exposures that may be associated with mining operations conducted at altitude and to discuss