The company preventive care in practice – a timely diagnosis of soft sarcoma in a medical officer

Czech version

Authors: L. Smolíková ¹; H. Bejčková ¹; V. Machartová ¹; J. Ferda ²; H. Mírka ²; J. Záhlava ²; A. Bednářová ²; M. Ruml ³; K. Koudela jr. ³; T. Svoboda ⁴
Authors‘ workplace: Klinika pracovního lékařství LF UK a FN Plzeň, přednostka MUDr. Vendulka Machartová, Ph. D. ¹; Klinika zobrazovacích metod LF UK a FN Plzeň, přednosta doc. MUDr. Boris Kreuzberg, CSc. ²; Klinika ortopedie a traumatologie pohybového ústrojí, přednosta prof. MUDr. Karel Koudela, CSc. ³; Onkologické a radioterapeutické oddělení LF UK a FN Plzeň, přednosta doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fínek, Ph. D. ⁴
Published in: Pracov. Lék., 64, 2012, No. 1, s. 41-42.
Category: Case Studies

Overview

The company preventive care secures, in collaboration with the employer, prevention including protection of the employees’ from occupational diseases and other types of health damage due to work as well as injury prevention. For a quality performance of the company preventive care it is necessary to know not only the specific risk at the workplaces, but to examine the workers well clinically. In this way it is possible to detect the disease in the beginning before possible later severe health damage. The authors describe the case report of the patient, who was diagnosed soft tissue sarcoma.

Key words:
company preventive care – soft tissue sarcoma

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Occupational Medicine

2012 Issue 1