Introduction: Tuberculosis is frequently omitted in the diagnostic workup and may be identified accidentally following thoracic surgeries, mostly those targeting lung cancer. Objectives: This study ...

Although localized areas of calcification within the bronchial tree can be seen in a reaction to inflammation or trauma and calcification in the cartilaginous airways can be found in conditions such ...

A sixty-six-year-old, Albanian-born, retired painter was admitted to the hospital because of abnormal x-ray films of the chest. Four years previously he entered another hospital because of dyspnea and ...

ASBESTOSIS has been produced in monkeys, rabbits and guinea pigs exposed to crocidolite, amosite and chrysotile asbestos dusts in experimental dust rooms 1. No record of asbestosis occurring in ...