Lung and pleural changes caused by exposure to asbestos
Krychniak-Soszka, A.; Wesołowski, S.; Kuś, J.
Pneumonologia i Alergologia Polska 65(9-10): 676-684
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0867-7077 PMID: 9489444 Document Number: 477701
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.