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Asbestosis and Silicosis

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Molecular Pathology of Lung Diseases

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Many of the lung diseases discussed in this book are the result of exposures to environmental substances, including infections, malignancies, immune reactions, and chronic interstitial diseases. Individual sections and chapters discuss lung cancer and mesothelioma (Sections 3 and 4), infections (Section 5), asthma (Chapter 51), and nonneoplastic smoking-related diseases (Chapter 49). This chapter focuses on those exposures that occur in the occupational environment and produce nonneoplastic lung disease. Although occupational exposures may produce asthma, small airways disease, acute lung injury, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, this chapter discusses the pneumoconioses.

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  1. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

    Philip T. Cagle MD (Professor and Director Pulmonary Pathology)

  2. The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Philip T. Cagle MD (Professor and Director Pulmonary Pathology)

  3. Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA

    Timothy Craig Allen MD, JD

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  1. Department of Pathology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Dani S. Zander MD

  2. Institute of Pathology, Laboratories for Molecular Cytogenetics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Helmut H. Popper MD

  3. Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Jaishree Jagirdar MD

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  5. Department of Pathology, San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, Baytown, TX, USA

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  6. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

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Cagle, P.T., Allen, T.C. (2008). Asbestosis and Silicosis. In: Zander, D.S., Popper, H.H., Jagirdar, J., Haque, A.K., Cagle, P.T., Barrios, R. (eds) Molecular Pathology of Lung Diseases. Molecular Pathology Library, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72430-0_60

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