title: International Labor Office Classification System in the age of imaging: relevant or redundant.
abstract: The 1980 International Labor Office International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses is a widely used epidemiologic tool with a storied past. This article reviews its development and examines its applications to occupational lung disease and the controversies generated in that process. The question of its relevancy to current imaging practices is discussed.
authors.affiliation: American College of Radiology Committee (formerly Task Force) on the Pneumoconioses and Department of Radiology, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. dhenry@hsc.vcu.edu
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Henry
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011009:Pneumoconiosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic