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Silicosis in a housewife
Wassef F Safa1, Jose L Machado
1Department of Medicine, Tawam Hospital, PO Box 15258, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. safa@tawam-hosp.gov.ae
Saudi Medical Journal
|February 19, 2003
Abstract:
Silicosis is an occupational respiratory disease caused by inhaling respirable crystalline silica dust. We report the case of silicosis in a 50-year-old woman that presented with pulmonary fibrosis and later developed pulmonary tuberculosis. Her condition is believed to be due to inhalation of dust produced by scrubbing a silica rich surface during usual daily housework.