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Glass dust esophagitis: an unusual cause of chest pain

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Commentary Industrial exposure to various dusts, usually of glass, coal, asbestos, stone, beryllium, and cotton, causes a variety of diseases that mainly affect the lung: silicosis, pneumoconiosis, asbestosis, chalicosis, berylliosis, and byssinosis, respectively. The name silicosis (Latin: silex, or flint) was first used in 1870 by Achille Visconti, a prosector in the Oespedale Maggiore of Milan. Silicon, the second