title: [Vigilance on health surveillance in wood sector].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A program to promote occupational health among wood dust workers in the district of Civitavecchia.
  
  
  METHODS
  In recent years, occupational health physicians charged of medical surveillance of wood workers (Competent Physicians, CPs) had been invited to perform a peer-review of their methods and activities. In the present phase, CPs have been invited to show the result of their medical surveillance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred forty seven wood workers were submitted to rhinoscopic examination. The prevalence of woodwork-related rhinitis and other pathologic signs, including nasal adenocarcinoma (one case), was 32.7%. The prevalence of rhinitis in woodworkers increased with years of working as a woodworker.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Wood dust and chemical exposures in wood workers represent a serious risk of disease for the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses.
authors.affiliation: SPRESAL ASL RMF, Civitavecchia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bevilacqua
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Magnavita
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Becchetti
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: De Matteis
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giunta
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lancia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mammi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pisciottano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Roccia
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pupp
mesh_terms: D004391:Dust; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D016272:Occupational Health; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014934:Wood
chemical_list: D004391:Dust