pubmed-article:15597356 | pubmed:abstractText | South Africa has one of the largest miner autopsy databases, PATHAUT, dating back to 1925. The diagnoses recorded on this database have never been evaluated for coal miners. The objective was to determine the validity of the autopsy diagnoses for coal workers, specifically bronchitis, silicosis, tuberculosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis and emphysema, from 1975 to 1997. | lld:pubmed |