[Examples for asbestos-related findings in HRCT - criteria for the assessment of causal relationships in surveillance programmes and medical expert opinion].
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.
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Institut für Arbeitsmedizin und Sozialmedizin, Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen University. tkraus@ukaachen.de
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Elliehausen
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Frank
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Hering
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Hieckel
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Hofmann-Preiss
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Jacques
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Jeremie
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Kotschy-Lang
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Mannes
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Otten
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Raab
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Raithel
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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*
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