Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Chronic Silicosis: A Case Report

• Main Authors: Pritinanda Mishra (Author), Sajini Elizabeth Jacob (Author), Debdatta Basu (Author), Manoj Kumar Panigrahi (Author), Vishnukanth Govindaraj (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Silicosis is an occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica. People working in occupations like sandblasting, surface drilling, tunneling, silica flour milling, ceramic making, and so forth are predisposed to develop silicosis. Crystalline forms of silica are more fibrogenic...