Abstract:Occupational exposure is one of the major risk factors for lung diseases globally. Although the aetiology and the course of major occupational lung diseases are well understood, the nature of lung diseases caused by new agents is still not well evaluated. The rise of interstitial and malignant lung diseases due to occupational exposures has caught global attention because either the causal agents are novel and the mode of action is poorly understood, or classical exposures have reappeared in a newer way, or th… Show more
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