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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Types include:

Coalworker's pneumoconiosis (also known as "black lung") - coa] dust
Asbestosis - asbestos dust
Silicosis (also known as "grinhelloders' disease") - silica dust
Bauxite fibrosis - bauxite dust
Berylliosis - beryllium dust
Siderosis - iron dust
Labrador Lung (found in miners in Labrador, Canada) - mixed dust, including iron, silica and anthophyllite, a type of asbestos

Pneumoconiosis in combination with multiple pulmonary rheumatoid nodules in rheumatoid arthritis patients is known as Caplan's syndrome.^[1]

↑ Andreoli, Thomas, ed. CECIL Essentials of Medicine. Saunders: Pennsylvania, 2004. p. 737.