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Asbestos‐related pleural disease in Western Australian gold‐miners
Author(s) -
Lee Y C Gary,
De Klerk Nicholas H,
Musk A William
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb127749.x
Subject(s) - asbestos , medicine , asbestosis , mesothelioma , pleural disease , disease , environmental health , respiratory disease , pathology , lung , metallurgy , materials science
Three retired gold‐mine workers from Western Australia (WA) were diagnosed with asbestos‐ related pleural disease (two with pleural plaques and one with mesothelioma). Asbestos fibres have been found in air samples from WA gold‐mines, and all three patients had worked in these mines (for five to 17 years) and had no other significant known asbestos exposure. To our knowledge, this is the first report of asbestos‐related disease in gold‐mine workers.