Schunk W
Z Gesamte Inn Med. 1982 Mar 15;37(6):177-80.
Wherever workers are professionally exposed to manganese and its compounds, but particularly in brown haematite mills, a chronic occupational manganese intoxication may appear with the picture of an expressed results of own investigations on 45 workers of a brown haematite mill in Thuringia who were exposed to manganic dust during 11 years as well as on manganese patients who were reported shall contribute to the clarification of the question of early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of a manganese intoxication. Attention is paid to functional diagnostic methods (EEG, EMG). On the basis of successes of treatment with the help of a substitution therapy of L-Dopa and amantine hydro-chloride new aspects concerning the pathogenesis of this disease are reported and conclusions for practice are made.
无论工人在何处职业性接触锰及其化合物，尤其是在褐铁矿厂，都可能出现慢性职业性锰中毒。对图林根州一家褐铁矿厂45名在11年中接触锰尘的工人以及所报告的锰中毒患者进行的自身调查结果表明，这有助于阐明锰中毒的早期诊断和鉴别诊断问题。文中关注了功能诊断方法（脑电图、肌电图）。基于左旋多巴和盐酸金刚烷胺替代疗法的治疗成功经验，报告了关于该疾病发病机制的新观点并得出了实践结论。
