BackgroundIndonesia is one of the world's largest asbestos importing countries. While main contributor to work-related lung cancer, studies or reports regarding CT findings asbestos-related cancer have been limited in country. The objective this study was compare size tumor and pleural parenchymal changes between patients exposed asbestosis those not exposed. MethodsThis cross-sectional involve...

The overall and regional clearance of an inhaled isotope labelled solute from the lungs was examined on the basis of a 15 minute period of data collection, for which a technique was developed that does not require intravenous injection to correct for blood-tissue background activity. The technique was applied to 52 normal subjects (31 non-smokers and 21 smokers) and to 37 patients with asbestos...

Diagnosis of asbestosis and bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma was made in a 55-year-old Turkish woman who was a nonsmoker. She originated from and was living in an area with a high prevalence of environmental diseases attributed to tremolite asbestos. Mineralogic analysis of lung tissue revealed very high concentrations of asbestos bodies (1.64 x 10(6)/g of dry tissue) and tremolite fibers (173.7 x...

Asbestosis is defined as diffused interstitial fibrosis of the lung, as a consequence of exposure to asbestos fibres, often associated with pleural plaques. Diagnosis of asbestosis, according to the American Thoracic Society (2004) is based on the following criteria: 1. hystopathological or imaging demonstration of structural alterations compatible with asbestos-related disease; 2. previous asb...