Occupational lung disease in wood workers

ABSTRACT

An occupational history gives a clue to the arrival of diagnosis. However; rather unexpected relation between exposure and disease may also occur in occupational medicine. Three cases are studied. The lesson of these cases is not the difficulties in diagnosis and being too late for treatment; but that it could have been prevented if doctors and supervisors instill into the minds of the workers that any work involving dust must be engaged in only with the use of a protective dust mask