Items tagged “asbestos”
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Asbestosis
Asbestosis is an occupational fibrotic lung disease associated with high levels of asbestos fibre inhalation. Fibrosis is lower lobe predominant and can progress. Even without progression the risk of lung cancer is increased. The presence of pleural plaques is variable 10.
Epidemiology
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Asbestos-related diseases
Asbestos-related disease, in particular affecting the lung, comprise of a broad spectrum of entities related to the inhalational exposure to asbestos fibres. They can be divided into benign and malignant processes 1-3.
Benign pleural and parenchymal lung disease
asbestos-related benign pleural...
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Round atelectasis
Published
11 Feb 2010
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Ferruginous body (histology)
Published
26 Feb 2010
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Pleural plaque
Pleural plaques are the most common manifestation of asbestos-related disease and can be identified with a very high degree of specificity with CT.
Epidemiology
Pleural plaques are strongly associated with inhalational exposure to asbestos. There is an extremely long latency (typically 20 to 3...
Case
Asbestos bodies (histology)
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26 Feb 2010
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Asbestos body
An asbestos body is a histological finding in interstitial lung disease that is suggestive of significant occupational asbestos exposure. They are usually identified following a parenchymal lung biopsy 3.
Macrophage ingestion of the asbestos fibres triggers a fibrogenic response via the release...
Case
Asbestos - anthophyllite (photo)
Published
26 Feb 2010
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Hairy pleural plaque
Hairy pleural plaques are a manifestation of asbestos-related disease. They arise from the visceral pleura, typically from an interlobar fissure. The hairiness stems from short radially-orientated linear regions of fibrosis extending from the plaque into the adjacent lung parenchyma.
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Asbestosis
Published
27 Feb 2010
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Pleural plaques
Published
03 Mar 2016
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Mixed pneumoconiosis - silicosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis and asbestos-related pleural disease
Published
23 Feb 2020
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Bilateral lower lobe round atelectasis due to asbestos pleural disease
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15 Feb 2022
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Asbestos exposure with calcified pleural plaques
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04 Mar 2022
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