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Pleural plaques consist of bordered areas of grey-white hardened fibrous – tissue, and commonly appear on the ‘parietal pleura’ and found less frequently on the ‘visceral pleura’.
The first recognition of pleural plaques in connection with workers exposed to asbestos was made by J.B Sparks in 1931, who recorded them as ‘irregular calcified plaques’. Pleural plaques [...]
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