Silicon Carbide Pneumoconiosis

Masse et al. (1988) in 3 patient aged 60 to 72 years, who had worked in a silicon carbide plant for 30 to 40 years, found a mixed pneumoconiosis  

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Toxicology. Silicon carbide, in certain forms, may be a cause of pneumoconiosis in exposed workers. 

Funahashi A, Schueter D, Pintar KA, et al Pneumoconiosis in workers exposed to silicon carbide. Am Rev Respir Dis 129 635-640, 1984... 

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