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 1980-12
Description Although nonspecific, pulmonary gallium67 (Ga67) imaging is a useful diagnostic study in many diseases. Positive (increased uptake) Ga67 imaging has been reported in radiographic silicosis and asbestosis. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the use of Ga67 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 mines 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 area 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 CA67 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 Ga67 uptake.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Radionuclide Imaging; Pulmonary Disorders
Subject MESH Pneumoconiosis; Gallium Radioisotopes
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MPH
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Gallium sixty-seven citrate imaging in coal workers' pneumoconiosis." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Gallium sixty-seven citrate imaging in coal workers' pneumoconiosis." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RC 39.5 1980 B37.
Rights Management © Harold William Barkman.
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Identifier us-etd2,80
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zp4mqg
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