Imaging of Occupational and Environmental Disorders of the Chest.pdf
Imaging of Occupational and Environmental Disorders of the Chest.pdf
Contents I
MEDICAL RADIOLOGY
Diagnostic Imaging
Editors:
A. L. Baert, Leuven
K. Sartor, Heidelberg
Contents III
P. A. Gevenois and P. De Vuyst (Eds.)
Imaging of Occupational
and Environmental
Disorders of the Chest
With Contributions by
M. Akira · V. C. S. Antao · H. Arakawa · Z. A. Aziz · A. Bankier · D. E. Banks
M. W. Brauner · P.-Y. Brillet · S. Burge · A. Churg · S. J. Copley · J.-C. Dalphin · S. R. Desai
P. De Vuyst · P. Dumortier · T. Franquet · P. A. Gevenois · F. Guillon · D. M. Hansell
D. A. Lynch · N. Magy · B. Nemery · Ø. Omland · C. G. C. Ooi · J. E. Parker
A. Rask-Andersen · G. Reboux · J. A. Verschakelen
Foreword by
A. L. Baert
With 195 Figures in 289 Separate Illustrations, 47 in Color and 25 Tables
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IV Contents
Paul De Vuyst, MD, PhD
Professor and Head
Department of Respiratory Medicine
Hôpital Erasme
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels
Belgium
Pierre Alain Gevenois, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Clinic of Chest Imaging
Department of Radiology
Hôpital Erasme
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels
Belgium
Medical Radiology · Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology
Series Editors: A. L. Baert · L. W. Brady · H.-P. Heilmann · M. Molls · K. Sartor
Continuation of Handbuch der medizinischen Radiologie
Encyclopedia of Medical Radiology
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004116346
ISBN 3-540-21343-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN 978-3-540-21343-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Contents V
A changing industrial environment in the western world during the past decades has
resulted in a considerable change in the spectrum of occupational and environmen-
tal lung disorders that we observe nowadays in medical practice. Modern radiological
imaging is a important diagnostic tool for the correct management of these diseases.
This volume, unique in its concept, not only covers in a comprehensive way the imag-
ing features of the well-known coal worker’s pneumoconiosis and the severe forms of
silicosis and asbestosis, but also deals extensively with the effects of new organic and
inorganic materials , used in the modern chemical industry as well as with the noxious
effects of cigarette smoking.
The eminently readable text is complemented by superb illustrations.
The editors, P.A. Gevenois and P. De Vuyst are well-known experts in the fi eld. The
authors of the individual chapters are outstanding specialists in the epidemiology, eti-
ology, immunology, pathology, pathophysiology, and radiology of dust inhalation dis-
eases. I would like to thank and to congratulate most sincerely the editors and the
authors for their top-level contributions.
This superb book will be of great value for general and chest radiologists but also
for pneumologists and all those active in occupational and environmental medicine. It
provides them with the latest information on a very interesting medical fi eld with an
important medicosocial impact.
I am confi dent that it will meet the same success with the readers as many previous
volumes in this series.
Leuven Albert L. Baert
Foreword
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