title: [Lung and pleural changes caused by exposure to asbestos].
abstract: Asbestos exposure results in an increased risk of nonmalignant as well as of malignant pulmonary and pleural disease. The asbestos-related disease are inexorably progressive (cancer) or insidious (fibrosis), untreatable and widespread in the industrialized and urban world. The identification of these diseases is important because therapy and prognosis differ from the other pulmonary fibrosis. The case reports indicate that careful clinical and histologic examination allows proper diagnosis. Two patients with asbestos-related disease after asbestos exposure are described.
authors.affiliation: I Kliniki Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc, Instytutu Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc w Warszawie.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krychniak-Soszka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wesołowski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuś
mesh_terms: D001194:Asbestos / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D001194:Asbestos
vernacular_title: Zmiany płucne i opłucnowe wywołane ekspozycja na azbest.