Incidental and Underreported Pleural Plaques at Chest CT: Do Not Miss Them—Asbestos Exposure Still Exists

Table 4

Additional lung ICOERD findings.

Lung ICOERD features	Patients	Abnormalities significance (number of cases)
Normal lung parenchyma	21; 27.6%
Well defined rounded opacities	18; 23.7%	(i) Postinflammatory (8); (ii) Silicosis (2); (iii) Metastasis (3); (iv) Sarcoidosis (1); (v) Uncertain significance (4)
Irregular and/or linear opacities	20; 29.3%	(i) Lung fibrosis with UIP consistent pattern (2); (ii) Organizing pneumonia (1); (iii) Hypersensibility pneumonia (1); (iv) Sarcoidosis (1); (v) Asbestosis (6); (vi) Pulmonary infarction (2); (vii) Uncertain significance (7)
Ground glass opacities	8; 10.5%	(i) Lung cancer (3 cases); (ii) Desquamative interstitial pneumonia (2); (iii) Uncertain significance (3)
Honeycombing	4; 5.2%	(i) Lung fibrosis with UIP consistent pattern (3); (ii) Hypersensibility pneumonia (1)
Emphysema	16; 21%
Large opacities	5; 6.8%	(i) Lung cancer (2 cases); (ii) Rounded atelectasis (1); (iii) Mesothelioma (1); (iv) Hamartoma (1)