This picture shows complicated coal workers pneumoconiosis. There
are diffuse, massive light areas that run together in the upper and
middle parts of both lungs. These are superimposed on a background
of small and poorly distinguishable light areas that are diffuse
and located in both lungs. Diseases which may explain these X-ray
findings include, but are not limited to: complicated coal workers
pneumoconiosis (CWP), silico-tuberculosis, and metastatic lung
cancer.
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)
