siderosis
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Siderosis is the deposition of excess iron in body tissue. When used without qualification, it usually refers to an environmental disease of the lung, also known more specifically as pulmonary siderosis or '''Welder's disease''', which is a form of pneumoconiosis.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Siderosis
- Medical condition.image
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- Medical condition.caption
- Iron
- Medical condition.field
- Respirology
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Pulmonary siderosis, welder's disease
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Research
2,820 papers- Ocular Siderosis.International ophthalmology clinics · 2024
- Superficial siderosis and the dura.European journal of neurology · 2024
- Superficial siderosis.Annals of neurology · 1993
- Ocular siderosis.Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) · 1988
- Ocular siderosis.Eye (London, England) · 1993
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Encyclopedic overview
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Siderosis is the deposition of excess iron in body tissue. When used without qualification, it usually refers to an environmental disease of the lung, also known more specifically as pulmonary siderosis or '''Welder's disease', which is a form of pneumoconiosis.
Pulmonary siderosis was first described in 1936 from X-ray images of the lungs of arc welders.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “siderosis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.