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Table 1 Number of participants with specific changes on standard chest X-ray (n=3061) and MDCT of the thorax (n=196)

From: Radiological surveillance of formerly asbestos-exposed power industry workers: rates and risk factors of benign changes on chest X-ray and MDCT

  

n

%

 

Chest X-ray

  

Any changes

 

422

13.8

Asbestosis

 

32

1.0

Plaques

 

242

7.9

Diffuse pleural thickening

 

180

5.9

No changes

 

2639

86.2

 

MDCT

  

Any changes

 

118

60.2

Asbestosis

 

40

20.4

Plaques

 

112

57.1

No changes

 

78

39.8