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SUBMITTER: Halldin CN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6864224 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Halldin Cara N CN Blackley David J DJ Markle Travis T Cohen Robert A RA Laney A Scott AS
Archives of environmental & occupational health 20190520 3
Clinical teaching generally asserts that large opacities of progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) on chest radiographs present primarily bilaterally in the upper lung zones, and with an elevated background profusion of small opacities. However, the contemporary basis for these descriptions is limited.Radiographs taken for the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program during 2000-2015 and previously determined to have large opacities ("PMF radiographs", <i>n</i> = 204), and a random sample previousl ...[more]