[The possibility of using computed tomography in the diagnosis of silicosis and silicotuberculosis]. / K voprosu o vozmozhnosti ispol'zovaniia komp'iuternoi tomograffi v diagnostike silikoza i silikotuberkuleza.

Potentials of computed tomography application to occupational pulmonology are not identified yet, hence it has a limited utility in this sphere. Computed tomography combined with roentgenologic methods serves to specify the origin and size of affected mediastinal nodes, to distinguish between silicotic and silicotuberculotic affects and nodules. Additional data are required.

[The clinical characteristics of the early stages of occupational fluorosis under the combined and joint action of production factors]. / Klinicheskie osobennosti rannikh stadii professional'nogo fliuoroza pri kombinirovannom i sochetannom deistvii proizvodstvennykh faktorov.

Over 1000 workers of hydrofluoric and cryolite enterprises and electrolysis shops of aluminium enterprises were examined. Subjects exposed to soluble hydrofluorides presented in the early stage of chronic intoxication with a variety of syndromes, that was characteristic of intoxication with poisons of general toxic action with involvement of hepatobiliary, digestive, circulatory and autonomic nervous systems. Combined exposure to fluoric compounds, heating microclimate and electromagnetic fields results in a graver involvement of the circulatory and autonomic nervous systems. Clinical and experimental data show, that osteoarthrosis deformans of the major joints (primarily elbow joint) must be regarded as one of the symptoms of fluorosis, when other intoxication signs are present.