Book Details

Imaging of Occupational and Environmental Disorders of the Chest

Publication year: 2006

: 978-3-540-30903-1

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This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive approach to modern imaging of environmental and occupational diseases of the chest. The first part of the book addresses the basic knowledge required to understand imaging in this context, while the second focuses on the imaging results achieved in a variety of specific disorders. There is particular emphasis on the role of thin-section computed tomography since this technique facilitates the detection of early subclinical abnormalities.


: Medicine, Computed Tomography, Imaging, Occupational lung diseasess, Pneumoconiosis, classification, computed tomography (CT), radiology, tomography