ABSTRACT
X-ray imaging of occupational diseases remains topical so far. Contemporary methods of X-ray imaging of occupational broncho-pulmonary diseases, locomotory disorders and spinal diseases helped to emphasize importance of various X-ray methods combining various approaches in obtaining new X-ray images for better quality of diagnostic and therapeutic measures in occupational therapy. X-ray methods not only widen diagnostic potentialities in occupational therapy, but also can be major methods of in-vivo diagnosis of some occupational diseases.
Subject(s)
Occupational Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Occupational Medicine/methods , Radiography/methods , Bronchial Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Lung Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Movement Disorders/diagnostic imaging , Occupational Diseases/diagnosis , Occupational Diseases/physiopathology , Spinal Diseases/diagnostic imagingABSTRACT
The article deals with features of development and formation of various pneumoconioses diagnosed after 1996: less benign course, early complaints, marked functional and X-ray changes in lungs, early complications--these result mainly from lower content of chemicals with fibrogenous effect in industrial aerosol and presence of allergic, cytotoxic and irritating agents. That helped to formulate a concept of contemporary pneumoconiosis caused by complex industrial aerosol over last 10-15 years.