Beispiele asbestfaserstaubbedingter Veränderungen im HRCT– Anhaltspunkte für die Kausalzuordnung bei Vorsorgeuntersuchungen und bei der gutachterlichen Beurteilung

The increasing use of high-resolution computed tomography in formerly asbestos-exposed workers requires valid diagnostic criteria for the findings which have to be reported as suspicious for being asbestos-related in surveillance programmes and for the assessment of causal relationships between former asbestos exposure and findings in computed tomography. The present article gives examples for asbestos-related findings in HR-CT and discusses the specificity of parenchymal and pleural changes due to asbestos fibres.