Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Small airways dysfunction among non-smoking shipyard arc welders

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Small airways dysfunction among non-smoking shipyard arc welders / Ulf Hjortsberg, Palle Orbaek, Mans Arborelius

Sumario: Increased volume of trapped gas (VTG), indicating small airways dysfunction, was found among 14 never smoking non-atopic welders who had worked for 10-31 years in their occupation. To study small airways it measured volume of trapped gas (VTG) in the lung by using the nitrogen wash out technique

En: British journal of industrial medicine. - London and Margate. - nº 6, June 1992 ; p. 441-444

1. Medicina laboral . 2. Epidemiología . 3. Enfermedades profesionales . 4. Soldadura por arco . 5. Enfermedades pulmonares . 6. Soldadura . I. Orbaek, Palle . II. Arborelius, Mans . III. Título. IV. Título: British journal of industrial medicine.