RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Silicosis in a housewife
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 101
OP 103
VO 24
IS 1
A1 Safa, Wassef F.
A1 Machado, Jose L.
YR 2003
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/24/1/101.abstract
AB Silicosis is an occupational respiratory disease caused by inhaling respirable crystalline silica dust. We report the case of silicosis in a 50-year-old woman that presented with pulmonary fibrosis and later developed pulmonary tuberculosis. Her condition is believed to be due to inhalation of dust produced by scrubbing a silica rich surface during usual daily housework.