Researchers say it is the biggest work force study of berylliosis ever conducted.

In some individuals a single exposure can cause berylliosis.

Single or chronic exposure can lead to berylliosis, an incurable lung condition.

For example, beryllium is known to cause berylliosis.

Chronic berylliosis resembles sarcoidosis in many respects, and the differential diagnosis is often difficult.

Finally, he returned there in 1978 as a fellow and then a senior fellow until his death from an almost forty-year struggle with berylliosis.

Beryllium is corrosive to tissue, and can cause a chronic life-threatening allergic disease called berylliosis in some people.

Chronic berylliosis is a pulmonary and systemic granulomatous disease caused by exposure to beryllium.

Granulomas are seen in other chronic diseases, such as tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, and it can occasionally be hard to distinguish berylliosis from these disorders.

In individuals with chronic berylliosis, associated symptoms and findings often include dry coughing, fatigue, weight loss, chest pain, and increasing shortness of breath.

Some, however, suffer from diseases that are unusual outside the weapons complex, notably berylliosis, a condition that comes from exposure to beryllium dust.

Cases of chronic berylliosis were first described in 1946 among workers in plants manufacturing fluorescent lamps in Salem, Massachusetts.

Eight current Rocky Flats workers and four retired employees were tested and found to have berylliosis, The Denver Post reported today.

Machining the tamper shells produces beryllium and beryllium oxide dust; its inhalation can cause berylliosis.

His name is also lent to Schaumann bodies, which are calcium-containing inclusion bodies found in the cytoplasm of giant cells in sarcoidosis and berylliosis.

Between 1% - 15% of people are sensitive to beryllium and may develop an inflammatory reaction in their respiratory system and skin, called chronic beryllium disease or berylliosis.

Beryllium compounds were used in fluorescent lighting tubes, but this use was discontinued because of the disease berylliosis which developed in the workers who were making the tubes.

Acute berylliosis has a sudden, rapid onset and is characterized by severe inflammation of the lungs (pneumonitis), coughing, increasing breathlessness (dyspnea), and other associated symptoms and findings.

By the 1996, the US Department of Energy identified more than 50 cases of chronic berylliosis among nuclear industry employees, including three dozen in the Rocky Flats Plant; several died.

Recently, the Energy Department said it would study the effects of beryllium because of reports that workers in nuclear weapons plants had contracted berylliosis, a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium dust.

'True, but the dust resulting from the machining process converts to beryllium oxide, which when inspired converts again to beryllium hydroxide, and that causes berylliosis, which is uniformly fatal.'

Conglomerate masses may also occur in other pneumoconioses, such as talcosis, berylliosis (CBD), kaolin pneumoconiosis, and pneumoconiosis from carbon compounds, such as carbon black, graphite, and oil shale.

Examples of non-infectious granulomatous diseases are sarcoidosis, Crohn's disease, berylliosis, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, pulmonary rheumatoid nodules and aspiration of food and other particulate material into the lung.

Dr. Herbert Lawrence Anderson, a physicist who was a pioneer in the development of nuclear energy and the atomic bomb, died of berylliosis on Saturday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M.

The Energy Department said that the first case of berylliosis was diagnosed in 1984 at the Rocky Flats Plant, the nation's sole source of plutonium for the mechanisms that trigger the explosion in thermonuclear weapons.