RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Regional lung function in asbestos workers.
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 40
OP 44
DO 10.1136/thx.32.1.40
VO 32
IS 1
A1 D Seaton
YR 1977
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/32/1/40.abstract
AB Regional lung function was measured using radioactive xenon-133 in a group of normal subjects and in two groups of asbestos workers. When compared with the normal group, patients with pulmonary asbestosis showed impaired ventilation of the lower zones. Subjects with calcified pleural plaques without radiological evidence of lung parenchymal fibrosis did not show this abnormality.