-
- D Payerne, D Pioche, and E Chailleux.
- Service de Pneumologie-Oncologie-Allergologie, Centre Hospitalier, Saint-Nazaire.
- Rev Mal Respir. 1999 Sep 1;16(4):563-6.
AbstractThe involvement of the apical pleura is infrequent in diffuse pleural thickening secondary to asbestos exposure. Most often diffuse pleural thickening is accompanied by an obliteration of the costophrenic angle and the posterior and paraspinous pleural surfaces of the pleura are involved to the greatest extent. Unlike this typical form, we observed in five patients exposed to asbestos an apical pleural fibrosis, uni or bilateral, accompanied with lung retraction, hilar ascension and tracheal attraction. Apical pleural thickening with upper lobe changes in asbestos-exposed persons should be regarded as due to the asbestos exposure, after exclusion of other causes like tuberculosis and the apex tumors. Usually the evolution of the lesions is slowly progressive over several years or even decade, and results in mild restrictive defect.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..