Imaging of Occupational and Environmental Disorders of the Chest

The spectrum of occupational and environmental diseases has changed markedly in recent years. New industrial processes have led to the production and use of a wide range of chemicals, metals, and alloys, an increasing number of which have been reported to cause interstitial lung disease in exposed workers. Thus, while the workforce in coal mining and asbestos handling has decreased, new groups of workers are at risk of exposure to agents potentially responsible for pneumoconiosis. This well-illustrated book, written by internationally acclaimed experts, provides a comprehensive approach to modern imaging of environmental and occupational diseases of the chest. The first part of the book addresses the basic knowledge required to understand imaging in this context, while the second focuses on the imaging results achieved in a variety of specific disorders. There is particular emphasis on thin-section computed tomography since this technique facilitates the detection of early subclinical abnormalities.

• Computed Tomography
• Imaging
• Occupational lung diseasess
• Pneumoconiosis
• classification
• computed tomography (CT)
• radiology
• tomography

From RAD Magazine, July 2006:

'Nearly all aspects of industrial lung disease pertaining to radiology are included in this encyclopaedic work. The chapters are well laid out with tables and clear illustrations and are well referenced at the end.'

• Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  Paul Vuyst

• Clinic of Chest Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  Pierre Alain Gevenois

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