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

Published:2011-03-14 Issue:9 Volume:27 Page:826-830
ISSN:0748-2337
Container-title:Toxicology and Industrial Health
language:en
Short-container-title:Toxicol Ind Health

Author:

Dostbil Zeki¹,Polat Cahit²,Karakus Askeri³,Bakir Salih⁴,Yuce Salim⁵

Affiliation:

1. Dicle University Medical Faculty, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey,

2. Elazig Research and Training Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Elazig, Turkey

3. Dicle University, Department of Mining Engineering, Diyarbakir, Turkey

4. Dicle University Medical Faculty, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Diyarbakir, Turkey

5. Sivas State Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sivas, Turkey

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 99mTc-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.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Toxicology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0748233711399312

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