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  • Title: [Role of characteristics of the bronchopulmonary structure in the etiology of occupational diseases of the respiratory organs].
    Author: Milishnikova VV, Monaenkova AM.
    Journal: Med Tr Prom Ekol; 1995; (8):1-4. PubMed ID: 8520891.
    Abstract:
    The article analyzes the role of bronchial and pulmonary anatomy in formation if occupational diseases--chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis. Those diseases in over 78% of the examinees appear on the background of various anomalies of bronchial and pulmonary structure. In this case congenital anomalies commonly coincide with abnormal segmentary division of bronchi and extend down to the terminal parts of airways. Over 70% of the patients demonstrate tracheobronchial dyskinesia being an important cause of the diseases' fast progressing.
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