Stone fabricators who work with natural and engineered countertop products may be at risk of inhaling silica dust and developing serious illnesses like silicosis. If you became ill after being exposed ...

They are lined with the inhaled red dust from which springs a slow, silent disease – silicosis. Silicosis is not new. It has lingered in India’s mines, quarries and stone-cutting factories in ...

Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; ryan.hoy{at}monash.edu Objectives The popularity of high silica content artificial stone has been associated with emergence of severe, progressive ...

The concave zone of papillary calculi can contain a range of calcified lesions, from little HAP residues to typical well-developed HAP plaques, also known as Randall's plaques. The morphology of ...

Yes, the Color of Your Egg Yolk Matters — Here’s What It Means Poultry experts say an eggshell’s color is completely based on the type of chicken that lays it. “The shell color is dictated ...

These diseases can be further distinguished based on their calcification characteristics. Type CE5 lesions exhibited a special sign known as the “eggshell calcification wall sign”, characterized by ...

From the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (L.A.P., L.F.G., M.L.) Laboratório de Biologia Vascular, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Hospital ...