Occupational/Environmental Disease

Question 1

Drill bits, metal hardening = ??

Answer 1

Cobarl with GIP or hard metal lung disease

Question 2

Nasal septum perforation or lesions on fingers = ?

Answer 2

Chrome holes from chromium exposure

Question 3

Catalytic converters or jewlery manufacture with asthma =?

Answer 3

Platinum (type 1 sensitizer)

Question 4

Garlic odor on breath or sweat =?

Answer 4

Selenium

Question 5

Green tongue =?

Answer 5

Vanadium

Question 6

Irreversible blue-grey skin discoloration (argyria) =?

Answer 6

Silver intoxication

Question 7

Garlic or fishy odor that is non-irritating and massive hemolysis =?

Answer 7

Arsine gas

Question 8

Methamphetamine production = ?

Answer 8

ammonia or phosgene

Question 9

Bone necrosis “Phossy jaw” and deep burns on contact = ?

Answer 9

Phosphorus

Question 10

Refining nickel with diffuse interstitial lung disease = ?

Answer 10

Nickel Carbonyl

Question 11

Hypocalcemia and severe burns =?

Answer 11

Hydrofluoric Acid

Question 12

Oil industry and/or rotten eggs smell = ?

Answer 12

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)

Question 13

Pleural plaques or rounded atelectasis = ?

Answer 13

asbestos related lung disease

Question 14

foundry foreman =

Answer 14

exposure to silica

Question 15

pathology looks like granulomas and appear sarcoid like–but occupational history is industrial

Answer 15

berylliosis

Question 16

aerospace industry with radiographic features of sarcoidosis

Answer 16

berrylliosis