This chest x-ray shows stage II coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP).
There are diffuse, small light areas on both sides of the lungs.
Other diseases that may explain these x-ray findings
include simple silicosis, disseminated tuberculosis, metastatic
lung cancer, and other diffuse, infiltrative pulmonary diseases.
Review Date: 12/07/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in
Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division
of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts
General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
