Blowing Balloons and Pulmonary Talcosis: An Uncommon Hazard

A 65-year-old nonsmoker man presented with bilateral upper lobe conglomerated calcific opacities with basal reticulations. The patient denied any significant occupational exposure. Repeated and persistent enquiry revealed an intense exposure to talc 20 years back, from blowing balloons stained with...

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Autores principales: Patro, Mahismita, Gothi, Dipti, Ojha, Umesh, Sah, Ram B., Vaidya, Sameer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6783528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31619882
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_222_18
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author Patro, Mahismita
Gothi, Dipti
Ojha, Umesh
Sah, Ram B.
Vaidya, Sameer
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description A 65-year-old nonsmoker man presented with bilateral upper lobe conglomerated calcific opacities with basal reticulations. The patient denied any significant occupational exposure. Repeated and persistent enquiry revealed an intense exposure to talc 20 years back, from blowing balloons stained with talc powder for a period of 1 year. To the best of our knowledge, only one case has been reported in the past with talcosis due to balloon blowing.
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spelling pubmed-67835282019-10-16 Blowing Balloons and Pulmonary Talcosis: An Uncommon Hazard Patro, Mahismita Gothi, Dipti Ojha, Umesh Sah, Ram B. Vaidya, Sameer Indian J Occup Environ Med Case Report A 65-year-old nonsmoker man presented with bilateral upper lobe conglomerated calcific opacities with basal reticulations. The patient denied any significant occupational exposure. Repeated and persistent enquiry revealed an intense exposure to talc 20 years back, from blowing balloons stained with talc powder for a period of 1 year. To the best of our knowledge, only one case has been reported in the past with talcosis due to balloon blowing. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 2019-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6783528/ /pubmed/31619882 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_222_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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