Gallium sixty-seven citrate imaging in coal workers' pneumoconiosis

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Title Gallium sixty-seven citrate imaging in coal workers' pneumoconiosis
Publication Type thesis
School or College School of Medicine
Department Family & Preventive Medicine
Author Barkman, Harold William
Date 1980-08
Description Although nonspecific, pulmonary gallium (Ga ) imaging is a useful diagnostic study in many diseases. Positive (increased uptake) Ga imaging has been reported in radiographic silicosis and asbestosis. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the use of Ga imaging as an indicator of lung reaction to retained coal dust in underground coal miners with and without radiographic coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP). Twenty-two coal miners with a minimum of 20 years of underground coal mining without other significant dust exposure or known pulmonary disease were studied. Eleven miners had radiographic CWP and eleven had normal chest radiographs. The eleven miners with CWP by chest x-ray (CXR) were found to have an increased diffuse uptake (positive) image over their lung fields. In five of eleven positive scans, increased activity was present in areas where no disease was noted on CXR. The eleven miners without CWP on CXR had normal scans. In conclusion, radiographic CWP is associated with increased Ga uptake (positive image). There is also a suggestion that the scan is more sensitive than the corresponding chest radiograph in affected miners. In addition, coal miners without CXR evidence of CWP have normal Ga uptake.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Lungs, Dust diseases; Gallium; Coal miners, Health and hygiene
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Gallium sixty-seven citrate imaging in coal workers' pneumoconiosis. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections, RC39.5 1980 .B37
Rights Management ©Harold William Barkman
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx0j8s
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