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Year :2013 Month : March-April Volume : 2 Issue : 1 Page : 29 - 34

An Imaging Review Article on Pleura Pulmonary Calcification and its Impact

Correspondence Address :
Sushil. G. Kachewar, Devidas. S. Kulkarni,
Dr. Sushil Kachewar,
Associate Professor, Rural Medical College,
PIMS, Loni, India
Email: sushilkachewar@hotmail.com
Ph: 9921160357
Introduction: The lungs as well as the pleura are common sites of calcification. Important causes of calcification of lung parenchymal are prior infections (like viral pneumonia, miliary Koch`s), primary lung tumours and calcifying metastases to lung from carcinoma of breast, testes, thyroid and osteosarcoma. Lung parenchymal calcifications may also be seen in occupational lung diseases like coal workers pneumoconiosis. Common causes of pleural calcification are tuberculosis, asbestosis, empyema and old hemothorax. Primary pleural malignancy like mesothelioma and pleural metastases from carcinoma of breast, testes, thyroid and osteosarcoma can also calcify. While tiny calcifications are seen only on high resolution computed tomography [HRCT], larger calcifications are visible on routine chest radiographs as well. Ultrasound of the thorax does not demonstrate them satisfactorily. As the calcifications involving the Lung and the Pleura can have grave significance especially in the setting of neoplastic conditions, it is important to know how they appear on some common imaging modalities.
 
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