All 24 study participants were sheet metal workers who were nonsmokers with normal parenchyma on posteroanterior chest radiograph. These subjects had either normal pleura (n 7), circumscribed plaques (n 9), or diffuse pleural thickening (n 8). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

How Are Pleurisy and Other Pleural Disorders Diagnosed? National Heart Lung and Blood Institute [On-line information]. Available online at . Accessed June 2012. Crawford Mechem, C. (Updated 2011 July 8). Emergent Management of Pleural Effusion. [labtestsonline.it]

Chest X-ray abnormalities detected at the initial medical examination, and interpreted according to the International Labour Office Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses are reported in this paper. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Chest X-ray abnormalities detected at the initial medical examination, and interpreted according to the International Labour Office Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses are reported in this paper. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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B: An anterior mediastinal mass with maximum dimensions of 30 mm in thickness and 190 mm in width (arrowheads), bilateral diffuse pleural thickening (white arrows) with a rounded atelectasis on the right side (black arrow); this 62-year-old RPF patient [ojrd.biomedcentral.com]

This implies, like in the case of malignancy, that there is continuing low-grade inflammation, which over time can lead to pleural adhesions, loculation, and sometimes an entrapped lung. [journals.lww.com]

One limitation of medical thoracoscopy is the limited visualisation of the pleural cavity in patients with significant pleural adhesions. [academic.oup.com]