Pleuraplaques bei Asbestose

Imaging of

asbestos-related lung and pleural diseases as an endemic exposure in Egypt. A male patient 40 years old, a smoker, working as a concrete board cutter for 20 years. (a) axial mediastinal window, (b) axial lung window, (c) coronal mediastinal window and (d) sagittal mediastinal window non contrast CT scan of the chest showing right sided pleural plaques involving the costal and diaphragmatic pleura with dense curvilinear calcifications denoting benign asbestos related pleural disease.

Imaging of

asbestos-related lung and pleural diseases as an endemic exposure in Egypt. A 65-year-old male smoker patient, working in ship building for 30 years, was diagnosed as having calcified pleural plaques for 2 years with a latent period of 28 years. Axial CT scan lung and mediastinal windows showing bilateral curvilinear calcified pleural plaques involving the costal pleura

Asbestos-related

pleural and lung fibrosis in patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis. Pleural masses in the patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF). A: High-resolution computed tomography scan of the lung of a 55-year-old former pipefitter with RPF; there is a large anterior pleural mass (maximum dimensions of 30 mm × 150 mm) continuing into the mediastinum (arrowheads) and a thinner dorsal diffuse pleural thickening (white arrow) with a rounded atelectasis (black arrow); the patient had undergone left-sided pleural decortication 10 years earlier. B: An anterior mediastinal mass with maximum dimensions of 30 mm in thickness and 190 mm in width (arrowheads), bilateral diffuse pleural thickening (white arrows) with a rounded atelectasis on the right side (black arrow); this 62-year-old RPF patient had worked as a storeman, had used asbestos gloves and sealing tapes and done some pipe insulation. C: A 76-year-old female with RPF worked as a construction cleaner and had had a high level of asbestos exposure; there is a large plaque-like mass with calcifications with maximum dimensions of 27 mm in thickness and 150 in mm width. A smaller paravertebral plaque (white arrow) has no continuity with retroperitoneal fibrosis.