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==Asbestosis== | ==Asbestosis== | ||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Important to diagnose... asbestosis = compensation. | Definition: | ||
*Interstitial lung disease due to asbestos exposure.<ref name=Ref_PCPBoD8_375>{{Ref PCPBoD8|375}}</ref> | |||
**Important to diagnose... asbestosis = compensation. | |||
Conditions associated with asbestos exposure (mnemonic ''PALM''):<ref name=Ref_PCPBoD8_375>{{Ref PCPBoD8|375}}</ref> | |||
*Pleural plaques. | |||
*Asbestosis. | |||
*[[Malignant mesothelioma]]. | |||
*[[Lung carcinoma]]. | |||
Possible association with asbestos exposure: | |||
*[[Gestational trophoblastic disease]].<ref name=pmid19900938>{{Cite journal | last1 = Reid | first1 = A. | last2 = Heyworth | first2 = J. | last3 = de Klerk | first3 = N. | last4 = Musk | first4 = AW. | title = Asbestos exposure and gestational trophoblastic disease: a hypothesis. | journal = Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev | volume = 18 | issue = 11 | pages = 2895-8 | month = Nov | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0731 | PMID = 19900938 }}</ref> | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
*Histologic appearance as for UIP - | Features: | ||
**Segmented twirling | *Histologic appearance as for [[usual interstitial pneumonia]] (UIP). | ||
*''Ferruginous bodies'' - '''key feature'''. | |||
**Segmented twirling baton with long slender fibre within. | |||
Images: | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferruginous_body.jpg Ferruginous bodies (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferruginous_body.jpg Ferruginous bodies (WC)]. | ||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asbestosis_high_mag.jpg Asbestosis (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asbestosis_high_mag.jpg Asbestosis (WC)]. | ||