SILAGE GAS POISONING: NITROGEN DIOXIDE PNEUMONIA, A NEW DISEASE IN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

1 September 1956

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 45 (3) , 393-408
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-45-3-393

Abstract

Two cases of acute pneumonitis due to inhalation of nitrogen dioxide gas in a silo are described. One patient died of pulmonary edema 29 hours following exposure, the 2d patient recovered.

Keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE
PNEUMONIA
SILO FILLER'S DISEASE