title: [A case report of welder's lung].
abstract: The case of a 57-year-old man is reported, who worked as a plasma welder about 15 years. Chronic recurrent bronchitis was diagnosed 12 years after beginning of this work. The patient changed the place of his employment but the course of disease was uncommonly progressive. He died of right ventricular heart failure 10 years later. One year before death, the chronic obstructive pulmonary lesions were acknowledged as occupational disease. The post-mortem histological and chemical analysis of lung tissue yielded a mixed dust pneumoconiosis. These findings supported additionally the diagnosis of occupational disease.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologische Anatomie der Medizinischen Akademie Erfurt/DDR.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meerbach
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Otto
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jahn
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D004391:Dust / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008670:Metals / Q000032:analysis; D008875:Middle Aged; D011009:Pneumoconiosis / Q000473:pathology*; D014896:Welding
chemical_list: D004391:Dust; D008670:Metals
vernacular_title: Kasuistischer Beitrag zur Schweisserlunge.