Hypersensitivity pneumonitis after exposure to isocyanates.
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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis after exposure to isocyanates.
Four patients exposed to isocyanate vapour developed dyspnoea associated with restriction and reduced gas transfer as well as moderate airways obstruction on lung function testing. In one patient bilateral radiographic shadowing was present and an open lung biopsy was performed. The microscopic appearances ranged from acute inflammation to end-stage fibrosis but the centribular accentuation of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.31.2.127