This picture shows complicated coal workers pneumoconiosis. There
are diffuse, small, light areas (3 to 5 mm) in all areas on both
sides of the lungs. There are large light areas which run together
with poorly defined borders in the upper areas on both sides of the
lungs. Diseases which may explain these X-ray findings include
complicated coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP), silico-tuberculosis,
disseminated tuberculosis, metastatic lung cancer, and other
diffuse infiltrative pulmonary diseases.
Review Date: 06/10/2011
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Denis Hadjiliadis, MD, Assistant Professor
of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 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)
