title: [Examples for asbestos-related findings in HRCT - criteria for the assessment of causal relationships in surveillance programmes and medical expert opinion].
abstract: The increasing use of high-resolution computed tomography in formerly asbestos-exposed workers requires valid diagnostic criteria for the findings which have to be reported as suspicious for being asbestos-related in surveillance programmes and for the assessment of causal relationships between former asbestos exposure and findings in computed tomography. The present article gives examples for asbestos-related findings in HR-CT and discusses the specificity of parenchymal and pleural changes due to asbestos fibres.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Arbeitsmedizin und Sozialmedizin, Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen University. tkraus@ukaachen.de
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kraus
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Borsch-Galetke
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Elliehausen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Frank
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Hering
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Hieckel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hofmann-Preiss
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jacques
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Jeremie
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kotschy-Lang
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mannes
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Otten
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Raab
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Raithel
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tuengerthal
mesh_terms: D001194:Asbestos / Q000032:analysis*; D001195:Asbestosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015984:Causality; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D001194:Asbestos