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Pulmonary examination of a patient who has worked as a stone grinder for 9 years revealed small dense roundish nodules consisting of connective tissue. The nodules were found to have peripheral macrophages. Such pulmonary alterations are indicative of the following disease:

Answer options

  1. Multiple bronchiectasis
  2. Bronchial asthma
  3. Chronic bronchitis
  4. Acute pneumonia
  5. Silicosis
Correct answer

Silicosis

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