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Evaluation of the nasal mucociliary transport rate by rhinoscintigraphy in marble workshop workers.

Dicle University Medical Faculty, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey. .
Toxicology and Industrial Health (impact factor: 1.42). 03/2011; 27(9):826-30. DOI:10.1177/0748233711399312 pp.826-30
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ABSTRACT 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 (99m)Tc-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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Keywords

18 healthy controls
 
99m)Tc-MAA rhinoscintigraphy
 
control groups
 
healthy controls
 
intense environmental marble dust
 
Marble workers
 
marble workshop workers
 
nasal mucociliary transport rate
 
NMTRs
 
occupational marble dust exposure
 
occupationally exposured marble dusts
 
workers
 

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