Faces of Calcified Pleura and Pleural Space

Infection

Inflammation

Asbestos Related Disease

Chest X-ray Asbestos Related Disease
76-year-old former pipe fitter, presents with a cough.
CXR in the frontal and lateral projections show evidence of asbestos related disease characterized by pleural thickening and calcified pleural plaques.
Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net 42016c01

Chest X-ray Asbestos Related Disease
76-year-old former pipe fitter, presents with a cough.
CXR in the frontal and lateral projections show evidence of asbestos related disease characterized by pleural thickening and calcified pleural plaques (ringed in white).
Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net 42016c01L

Malignancy Mechanical/Atelectasis Trauma Metabolic Circulatory- Hemorrhage Immune Infiltrative Idiopathic Iatrogenic Idiopathic

Pneumonectomy with complex fluid and dystrophic calcification and shift of the mediastinum to the right. There is associated pleural thickening and hyperinflation of the left lung.
Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net