1. [Clinical and pathogenetic aspects of the chronic occupational intoxication with fluorine compounds in modern reality].
- Author
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Roslaia NA, Likhacheva EI, Oranskiĭ IE, Odinokaia VA, Plotko ÉG, Zhovtiak EP, Fedorov AA, and Riabko EV
- Subjects
- Adult, Air Pollutants, Occupational toxicity, Aluminum, Chemical Industry, Early Diagnosis, Electrolysis adverse effects, Electrolysis methods, Female, Fluorosis, Dental etiology, Fluorosis, Dental prevention & control, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Retrospective Studies, Russia epidemiology, Severity of Illness Index, Bone Diseases diagnosis, Bone Diseases epidemiology, Bone Diseases etiology, Bone Diseases physiopathology, Bone Diseases prevention & control, Fluoride Poisoning diagnosis, Fluoride Poisoning epidemiology, Fluoride Poisoning etiology, Fluoride Poisoning physiopathology, Fluoride Poisoning prevention & control, Fluorine Compounds toxicity, Occupational Diseases diagnosis, Occupational Diseases epidemiology, Occupational Diseases etiology, Occupational Diseases physiopathology, Occupational Diseases prevention & control, Occupational Exposure prevention & control
- Abstract
Multi-year follow-up of 358 workers of aluminum pot rooms, including 165 individuals suffering from fluorosis, has shown significant changes in the clinical picture of the chronic occupational fluorine intoxication, developed under modern conditions of production, at lower concentrations of fluorine compounds in the air of working area. In this connection, the pathology of the musculoskeletal system plays the dominating role in this clinical picture and has the large variability of combinations of the individual sections destructions of the bone tissue. The main criterion to establish the phase of the disease is still the number and severity of the signs of this destruction. The visceral pathology in contemporary production circumstances is registered with less frequency and loses a number of the previously described clinical manifestations, however, is still of some importance to identify the early signs of the disease and to prevent the dental fluorosis on time.
- Published
- 2012