[Recommendations for reporting benign asbestos-related findings in chest X-ray and CT to the accident insurances].
Asbestos-related diseases still play an important role in occupational medicine. The detection of benign asbestos-related diseases is one condition for the compensation of asbestos-related lung cancer in Germany. Due to the increasing use of computed tomography, asbestos-related diseases are more frequently detected in the early stages. The present article proposes recommendations for the findings which have to be reported as suspicious for being asbestos-related based on a) chest X-rays and b) computed tomography using the International Classification System for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases (ICOERD).
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Institut für Arbeitsmedizin und Sozialmedizin, Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen University. tkraus@ukaachen.de
Borsch-Galetke
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Elliehausen
H J
HJ
Frank
K
K
Hering
K G
KG
Hieckel
H G
HG
Hofmann-Preiss
K
K
Jacques
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W
Jeremie
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U
Kotschy-Lang
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N
Mannes
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E
Otten
H
H
Raab
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W
Raithel
H J
HJ
Schneider
W D
WD
Tuengerthal
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D001195:Asbestosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000592:standards*; D007346:Insurance, Accident / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000592:standards*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000592:standards*