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Space coloring pictures. 1 however the diagnosis of pt may be problematic and medico legal issues may occur. Diffuse tumorlike conditions of the pleura include diffuse pleural thickening and rare conditions such as erdheim chester disease and diffuse pulmonary. Abstract pleural thickening has a variety of causes and often must be distinguished from pleural masses while pleural calcifications are frequently the result of chronic infections including bacterial or tuberculous empyema.

Calcification or other high attenuation within the pleural space is commonly due to asbestos exposure chemical pleurodesis and remote trauma or infection. Extrapleural hematoma is a nonpleural mimic of pleural tumor and shares some imaging features with focal tumorlike conditions of the pleura despite residing in the extrapleural space. Pleural fibrosis has a number of causes and is the outcome of many pleural diseases and a potential complication of every inflammatory condition that affects the lungs.

The authors explore the options learning points a 77 year old man presented with left sided chest and back pain that did not respond to simple analgesics. That is located within the interlobular septa and along the pleural linings. Radiology department of the rijnland hospital leiderdorp and the academical medical centre amsterdam the netherlands.

As pleural thickening can have a benign or malignant cause use of the appropriate imaging techniques is crucial to a correct diagnosis. Benign pleural thickening caused by fibrosis is the second most common pleural abnormality the most common one being effusion. In 50 of patients the septal thickening is focal or unilateral.

Pleural thickening may be focal or diffuse benign or malignant with characteristic imaging features that can narrow the differential diagnosis table 1. The pleural plaques of asbestos may be localized soft tissue but frequently calcify with a characteristic radiologic appearance on both chest x ray and ct. The analysis of the location and shape of the pt as well as.

To propose an imaging strategy and propose an explanation for their mechanism of formation. 1 however the diagnosis of pt may be problematic and medico legal issues may occur. It can occur with both benign and malignant pleural disease.

Numerous causes of focal pleural thickening pt may be seen in routine chest ct. The pleura show a variety of patterns of fibrosis. Diagnosis of pleural plaques pps is usually feasible especially when a typical appearance is associated with a history of previous asbestos exposure.

He had a history of atrial fibrillation and was taking warfarin. To describe the characteristics of reversible focal pleural thickenings pts mimicking real plaques that firstly suggest asbestos exposure or pleural metastasis. Numerous causes of focal pleural thickening pt may be seen in routine chest ct.

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