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== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease and a restrictive lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust, often in mines.
Coalworker's pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) is an occupational lung disease seen in people who work with coal. For more generic pneumoconiosis, see [[Pneumoconiosis, NOS]].


Depending upon the type of dust, the disease is given different names:  Coalworker's pneumoconiosis=miner's lung/black lung /anthracosis coal carbon
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
*[[Asbestos lung disease]]  
*[[Asbestos lung disease]]  
*[[Silicosis of the lung (pneumoconiosis)]]
: Bauxite fibrosis/bauxite: Berylliosis /beryllium
: Siderosis/iron: Byssinosis/cotton: Labrador lung /asbestos/iron/silica
: Stannosis /tin oxide
: Popcorn worker
:Chalicosis
:Cocoa powder
: Talc
{{discussion}}I don't know what to do with these others.Should they be quoted as this or [[Silicosis of the lung (pneumoconiosis)]]
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
*[[Fibrothorax]]
*[[Fibrothorax]]
*[[Silicosis of the lung (pneumoconiosis)]]
*[[Silicosis of the lung (pneumoconiosis)]]
*[[Pneumoconiosis, NOS]]
*[[Pneumoconiosis, NOS]]
*[[Pneumoconiosis]]
*[[Pneumoconiosis]]


== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==