Arévalo Galeano N, Cabeza Martínez B, Bustos García de Castro A, Ferreirós Domínguez J
Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, España.
Radiologia. 2009 Nov-Dec;51(6):601-4. doi: 10.1016/j.rx.2009.05.007. Epub 2009 Sep 3.
We present the case of an asymptomatic patient with an initial clinical and radiological diagnosis of lung metastases in whom histological study diagnosed anthracosilicosis. A review of the literature shows that this presentation of anthracosilicosis is exceptional; our patient had atypical radiological findings and a very long latency period (over 50 years) after a brief (nearly 6 years) exposure to coal dust.
我们报告了一例无症状患者，其最初临床和影像学诊断为肺转移瘤，而组织学研究诊断为煤工尘肺。文献回顾显示，煤工尘肺的这种表现很罕见；我们的患者有非典型的影像学表现，且在短暂接触（近6年）煤尘后有很长的潜伏期（超过50年）。
