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Occupational Medicine 53:231-234 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 Society of Occupational Medicine

Case Report

Aesthesioneuroblastoma in a woodworker

N. Magnavita1, A. Sacco2, L. Bevilacqua3, T. D'Alessandris4 and C. Bosman5

1Institute of Occupational Medicine, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy.
2Occupational Medicine Service, Local Sanitary Unit ASL FR1, Frosinone, Italy.
3Occupational Medicine Service, Local Sanitary RMF, Civitavecchia, Italy.
4Specialist in Legal Medicine, Frosinone, Italy.
5Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Correspondence to: Nicola Magnavita, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Catholic University School of Medicine, Largo Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy. e-mail: nmagnavita{at}rm.unicatt.it

Abstract

A case is described of aesthesioneuroblastoma in a woodworker who had been exposed to wood dust for 25 years, without any individual or environmental protection. The case described supports the contention that occupational exposure to wood dust may have caused the neoplasm.

Keywords      Neuroblastoma; occupational cancer; wood dust


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