Hard Metal Disease

Cobalt Lung or Tungsten Carbide Disease; A pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of fine particles of cobalt, usually in conjunction with tungsten carbide In early stages reversible hyperplasia and metaplasia of the bronchial epithelium are seen; later, subacute alveolitis and then chronic interstitial fibrosis develop Called also tungsten carbide d and cobalt lung

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