שאלה משלב א׳ ברפואה תעסוקתית · מועד 2021, שאלה 37

Correct: A — pathological fractures and renal stones. Chronic cadmium damages the proximal tubule, causing phosphate and calcium wasting with osteomalacia and stones, the picture of itai-itai disease. Option B, nasal septal perforation, belongs to chromium; option C, increased urinary potassium, is not the characteristic tubular loss; option D names squamous skin cancer, which belongs to arsenic.

מקור: Ladou ch.30, p.468