The aim of this study was to investigate by computed tomography (CT) whether asbestosis, diffuse pleural thickening and/or pleural plaques are statistically associated. We also tried to find criteria to differentiate between diffuse and circumscribed pleural thickening. From 231 exposed workers, only those subjects whose radiograph showed neither bilateral calcified pleural plaques nor small pu...

The paper presents the peculiarities of morphological-anatomical structure organs, which are diagnostic traits herbal raw materials (HRM) commonest species Thymus L. genus in moderate climatic zone. We determined that studied develop a subshrub life form, grows monopodially Th. pulegioides and marschallianus, sympodially with mono-, di- polycyclic types monocarpic shoots serpyllum. Inflorescenc...