Pleural plaques in lung cancer screening by low-dose computed tomography: prevalence, association with lung cancer and mortality - Silva, Mario; Sverzellati, Nicola; Colombi, Davide; Milanese, Gianluca; La Vecchia, Carlo; Galeone, Carlotta; Marchianò, Alfonso; Pastorino, Ugo (BMC pulmonary medicine, 2017)
Keywords: Aged; Analysis; Asbestos - adverse effects; Asbestos exposure; Cancer; Cancer screening; Care and treatment; CAT scans; Critical Care Medicine; Diagnosis; Early Detection of Cancer; Health aspects; Humans; Incidence; Intensive; Internal Medicine; Italy - epidemiology; Lung cancer; Lung cancer screening; Lung Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Lung Neoplasms - mortality; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Methods; Middle Aged; Occupational Exposure - adverse effects; Pleural abnormalities; Pleural Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Pleural Diseases - mortality; Pleural plaques; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Post-test refinement of individual risk; Research Article; Risk Factors; Self-disclosure of asbestos exposure; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Italy; Self-disclosure of asbestos exposure; Pleural abnormalities; Lung cancer screening; Pleural plaques; Post-test refinement of individual risk; Asbestos exposure