Skip Navigation



Occupational Medicine Advance Access published online on August 1, 2006
Occupational Medicine, doi:10.1093/occmed/kql055
This Article
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
56/7/504    most recent
kql055v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Descatha, A.
Right arrow Articles by Ameille, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Descatha, A.
Right arrow Articles by Ameille, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Case Report

Occupational paraffin-induced pulmonary fibrosis: a 25-year follow-up

Alexis Descatha 1 *, Dominique Mompoint 2, and Jacques Ameille 1

1 Occupational Health Department, Poincaré University Hospital, AP-HP, 104 bd Raymond Poincaré, 92380 Garches, France
2 Medical Imaging Department, Poincaré University Hospital, AP-HP, 104 bd Raymond Poincaré, 92380 Garches, France

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Alexis Descatha, E-mail: alexis.descatha{at}rpc.aphp.fr


  Abstract

Abstract Exogenous lipid pneumonia can exceptionally be caused by occupational exposure to paraffin. The authors report a case of severe interstitial pulmonary disease induced by occupational exposure to paraffin, leading to delayed fibrosis over a 25-year follow-up, despite cessation of exposure.

Keywords: Occupational disease; occupational lung disease; oil.
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.