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Coal mine dust lung disease in miners killed in the Upper Big Branch disaster: a review of lung pathology and contemporary respirable dust levels in underground US coal mines

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  • Leonard H T Go Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Francis H Y Green Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jerrold L Abraham Department of Pathology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrew Churg Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Edward L Petsonk Department of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Robert A Cohen Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Leonard H T Go, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois, USA; lgo2{at}uic.edu
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Go LHT, Green FHY, Abraham JL, et al
Coal mine dust lung disease in miners killed in the Upper Big Branch disaster: a review of lung pathology and contemporary respirable dust levels in underground US coal mines
Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2022;79:319-325.

Publication history

  • Received April 28, 2021
  • Accepted October 28, 2021
  • First published December 8, 2021.
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July 06, 2022

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