CT chest showed interstitial septal thickening, new bilateral pleural effusions, dependent areas of dense ground glass and increase in size of calcified pleural plaques as compared to previous CT scan 9 performed months earlier. Broad spectrum antibiotics were continued and a permanent pacemaker was ...
Thirty patients with known asbestos dust exposure were studied because of uncertainty as to whether or not the pleural changes observed on the radiographs were due to plaques or subpleural fat. The CT scans confirmed that the changes were due to subpleural fat in 14 cases (48%). Characteristic...
Pleural plaques being a marker for asbestos exposure, chest computed tomography (CT) was performed to evaluate the presence of other asbestos-related diseases, including pulmonary fibrosis and pleuropulmonary malignancies. CT confirmed extensive bilateral calcified plaques in the parietal, diaphragmatic, ...
pleural plaquesFour cases with marked calcified plaque formation on the mediastinal pleural reflections are described and discussed.doi:10.1002/ajim.4700060108Albert SolomonG K Sluis-CremerRaymond Glyn ThomasV. M. F. WrightJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd....