pleural plaquesasbestosisCOPDairway obstructionspirometrypulmonary fibrosisplethysmographyA 69-year-old man, a former smoker, presented with concerns of breathlessness during mild efforts and a cough with little sputum that persisted for several months. He had no fever, chest pain, or nighttime ...
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 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....
This patient was a nephrologist who was known to have calcified pleural plaques that were unexplained as the patient had no known asbestos exposure. When amyloid is associated with the pleura it has been reported in association with persistent pleural effusions often in the setting of cardiac ...
In this chapter, the most commonly found calcified residues of soft tissue disease are addressed, including ossified cartilage, heterotopic ossification, leiomyomata, ovarian cysts, mesenteric cysts, calcified lymph nodes, hydatid cysts, biological stones, vascular calcifications, pleural plaques, calcified...