Evaluation of the nasal mucociliary transport rate by rhinoscintigraphy in marble workshop workers
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Tarih
2011
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Sage Publications Inc
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Marble workers are occupationally exposed to intense environmental marble dust in their workplace. We aimed to investigate the effect of occupational marble dust exposure on nasal mucociliary transport rate (NMTR). Seventeen marble workers and 18 healthy controls were studied. In all subjects, NMTRs were measured by Tc-99m-MAA rhinoscintigraphy. NMTRs of workers and control groups were compared by statistically. Mean NMTR was found as 9 +/- 1.8 mm/min in marble workers whereas mean NMTR of healthy controls was 9.6 +/- 2.2 mm/min. There was no statistically significant difference between NMTRs of workers and control groups (p > 0.05). This study has shown that occupationally exposured marble dusts may not cause functional impairment on NMTR in marble workshop workers.
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Marble, Dust, Calcium Carbonate, Mucociliary Clearance, Radionuclide Imaging
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Toxicology and Industrial Health
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Q3
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Q2
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27
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9
