• Medicine · May 2017

    Diagnostic and clinical application value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for progressive massive fibrosis of coal worker pneumoconiosis: Case reports.

    • Lansheng Zhang, Chun Wang, Qiuyue Yan, Tao Zhang, Zhengxiang Han, and Guan Jiang.
    • Department of Oncology, The Second Attached Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Department of Ultrasound, Affiliated Huai'an Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Huai'an Department of Radiation Oncology Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 May 1; 96 (20): e6890e6890.

    RationaleUsing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we diagnosed pneumoconiosis by identifying the content and distribution of hydrogen protons in the water molecules in different tissues and lesions.Patient Concerns25 cases of CWP patients with progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) lesions.DiagnosesPatients were correctly diagnosed, with one case each of Phase I and II pneumoconiosis and 23 cases of Phase III pneumoconiosis.InterventionsNone.OutcomesThrough MRI, 39 PMF pneumoconiosis lesions exhibited equal, low or equally low, and uneven signals on T2WI and fat suppression (SPIR) (38/39, 37/39).LessonsMRI has good specificity to identify the characteristics of PMF lesions of CWP, as well as has high application value for the differential diagnosis of lung cancer and other lung tumor-like lesions.

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