References
1. Kim JS, Lynch DA. Imaging of nonmalignant occupational lung disease. J Thorac Imaging 2002. 17238–260.
2. McLoud TC. Conventional radiography in the diagnosis of asbestos-related disease. Radiol Clin North Am 1992. 301177–1189.
3. Lynch DA, Gamsu G, Ray CS, Aberle DR. Asbestos-related focal lung masses: manifestations on conventional and high-resolution CT scans. Radiology 1988. 169603–607.
4. Gefter WB, Conant EF. Issues and controversies in the plain-film diagnosis of asbestos-related disorders in the chest. J Thorac Imaging 1988. 311–28.
5. Gefter WB, Epstein D, Miller W. Radiographic evaluation of asbestos- related chest disorders. Crit Rev Diagn Imaging 1984. 21123–181.
6. American Thoracic Society. The diagnosis of nonmalignant diseases related to asbestos. Am Rev Respir Dis 1986. 134363–368.
7. Gaensler EA, Jederlinic PJ, Churg A. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos-exposed workers (see comments). Am Rev Respir Dis 1991. 144477–478.
8. Kipen HM, Lilis R, Suzuki Y, Valciukas JA, Selikoff IJ. Pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos insulation workers with lung cancer: a radiological and histopathological evaluation. Br J Ind Med 1987. 4496–100.
9. Epler GR, McLoud TC, Gaensler EA, Mikus JP, Carrington CB. Normal chest roent-genograms in chronic diffuse infiltrative lung disease. N Engl J Med 1978. 298934–939.
10. Klass VE. A diagnositic approach to asbestosis, utilizing clinical criteria, high resolution computed tomonography, and gallium scanning. Am J Ind Med 1993. 23801–809.
11. Webb WR, Muller NL, Naidich DP. In : Kluwer W, ed. Pneumoconiosis, occupational, and environmental lung disease. High-resolution CT of the lung 2009. 3rd edth ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 301–334.
12. Akira M, Yamamoto S, Inoue Y, Sakatani M. High-resolution CT of asbestosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2003. 181163–169.
13. Akira M, Yokoyama K, Yamamoto S, Higashihara T, Morinaga K, Kita N, Morimoto S, Ikezoe J, Kozuka T. Early asbestosis: evaluation with high-resolution CT. Radiology 1991. 178409–416.
14. Aberle DR, Gamsu G, Ray CS, Feuerstein IM. Asbestos-related pleural and parenchymal fibrosis: detection with high-resolution CT. Radiology 1988. 166729–734.
15. Aberle DR, Gamsu G, Ray CS. High-resolution CT of benign asbestos-related diseases: clinical and radiographic correlation. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1988. 151883–891.
16. Akira M, Yamamoto S, Yokoyama K, Kita N, Morinaga K, Higashihara T, Kozuka T. Asbestosis: high-resolution CT-pathologic correlation. Radiology 1990. 176389–394.
17. Parks WR. In : Parks WR, ed. An approach to the differential diagnosis of asbestosis and non-occupational diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. Occupational lung disorders 1994. 3rd edth ed. London: Butterworth-Heinemann; 505–535.
18. al Jarad N, Strickland B, Pearson MC, Rubens MB, Rudd RH. High-resolution computed tomographic assessment of asbestosis and cryp-togenic fibrosing alveolitis: a comparative study. Thorax 1992. 47645–650.
19. Copley SJ, Wells AU, Sivakumaran P, Rubens MB, Lee YCG, Desai SR, MacDonald SLS, Thomson RI, Colby TV, Nicholson AG, du Bois RM, Musk AW, Hansell DM. Asbestosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: comparison of thin-section CT features. Radiology 2003. 229731–736.
20. Staples CA, Gamsu G, Ray CS, Webb WR. High resolution computed tomography and lung function in asbestos-exposed workers with normal chest radiographs. Am Rev Respir Dis 1989. 1391502–1508.
21. Friedman AC, Fiel SB, Radecki PD, Lev-Toaff AS. Computed tomog raphy of benign pleural and pulmonary parenchymal abnor-malities related to asbestos exposure. Semin Ultrasound CT MR 1990. 11393–408.
22. Friedman AC, Fiel SB, Fisher MS, Radecki PD, Lev-Toaff AS, Cardine DF. Asbestos-related pleu-ral disease and asbestosis: a comparison of CT and chest radi-ography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1988. 150269–275.
23. Gamsu G, Salmon CJ, Warnock ML, Blanc PD. CT quantification of interstitial fibrosis in patients with asbestosis: a comparison of two methods. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1995. 16463–68.
24. Ross RM. The clinical diagnosis of asbestosis in this century requires more than a chest radiograph. Chest 2003. 1241120–1128.