Browsing by Subject "Occupational diseases"
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Asma ocupacional
(Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, 2006-05-01)Work-related asthma is one of the principal occupational respiratory diseases in terms of prevalence. Innumerable chemical substances used in various production processes can cause or aggravate occupational asthma. This ...
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Avaliação da disfunção e da incapacidade nas pneumoconioses
(Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, 2006-05-01)The determination of functional consequences (dysfunction) and their impact on daily life (incapacitation) is central to the evaluation of patients with occupational respiratory diseases. The present review addresses the ...
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Doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica ocupacional
(Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, 2006-05-01)Occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, despite having been widely discussed for nearly half a century, is still rarely addressed in Brazil. Various studies, especially those that were population-based, have ...
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Doenças asbesto-relacionadas
(Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, 2006-05-01)This chapter presents a bibliographic review of asbestos-related diseases. The latest diagnostic, radiological, computed tomography and lung function aspects of benign pleural disease, asbestosis, occupational lung cancer ...
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Doenças granulomatosas ocupacionais
(Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, 2006-05-01)A variety of diseases are encompassed in the didactic denomination of granulomatous diseases of probable occupational etiology. As well as presenting similar clinical aspects, such diseases are characterized by certain ...
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Doenças ocupacionais: os problemas de saúde advindos das condições de trabalho em cozinhas industriais
(Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 2021-03-02)O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar as condições de trabalho e o seu impacto na ocorrência das doenças ocupacionais, bem como compreender os fatores de risco que propiciam o surgimento das doenças ocupacionais em cozinhas ...
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Imagem nas doenças ocupacionais pulmonares
(Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, 2006-05-01)This chapter consists of a review of the literature regarding radiographic and tomographic characteristics of the principal occupational respiratory diseases (silicosis and asbestosis). Special attention is given to the ...
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Pleural Plaques in Asbestos-exposed Workers: Reproducibility of a New High-resolution CT Visual Semiquantitative Measurement Method
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006-03-01)Objective: To assess the reproducibility of a new high-resolution computed tomography (CT) visual semiquantitative method for pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed workers.Material and Methods: We performed thin-section CT ...
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Relação entre dados ocupacionais, sintomas e avaliação vocal de operadores de telesserviços
(Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia, 2011-03-01)PURPOSE: To relate data regarding gender, age and length of time on the job with voice symptoms and the results of vocal evaluation of teleservice operators. METHODS: A quantitative retrospective analysis was carried with ...