Assertion: chronic silicosis | /r/HasProperty | simple silicosis
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text: Chronic silicosis may be described as simple silicosis, where individual fibrotic nodules are solitary and less than 1 cm in diameter, or as conglomerate silicosis (also referred to as ‘complicated silicosis’ or ‘progressive massive fibrosis’), where the nodules become confluent and eventually replace the lung parenchyma (Silicosis and Silicate Disease Committee 1988).