title: [Is scleroderma without silicosis also an occupational disease?].
abstract: Clinical, roentgenological and lung-physiological findings in 5 patients with progressive scleroderma are reported. All of them showed an intensive exposure to crystalline silica of many years however without evidence of a silicosis. Criteria for legal recognition as an occupational disease are intensity and duration of quartz dust exposure. Legal recognition in the G.D.R. can be achieved in a special procedure called "Sonderentscheidverfahren".
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004391:Dust / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011791:Quartz / Q000009:adverse effects; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012829:Silicosis / Q000175:diagnosis
chemical_list: D004391:Dust; D011791:Quartz
vernacular_title: Sklerodermie auch ohne Silikose eine BK?