Pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed workers: Reproducibility of a new high-resolution CT visual semiquantitative measurement method

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-13

  Portes Meirelles, Gustavo Souza ^a,e   Kavakama, Jorge Issamu ^c   Jasinowodolinski, Dany ^a   Nery, Luiz Eduardo ^a   Terra Filho, Mário ^c   Rodrigues, Reynaldo Tavares ^a   Neder, José Alberto ^a   Napolis, Lara Maris ^a   Bagatin, Ericson ^b   D'Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a   Müller, Nestor L ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asbestos; High resolution CT; Occupational diseases; Pleura abnormalities; Pneumoconiosis

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CHRYSOTILE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIAPHRAGM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; PLEURA PLAQUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASBESTOS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OBSERVER VARIATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645104552     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rti.0000191424.50208.bd     Document Type: Article

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