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Respiratory Disorders
1677 Chest ct scanning in the screening, surveillance, and diagnosis of occupational lung diseases
Abstract
Aim of special session Advances with chest CT scanning and CT scan-based lung cancer screening are changing the way diagnosis and screening for occupational lung diseases are conducted. We plan to review existing methodologies and experience-based emerging strategies.
Thomas Kraus, MD, PhD1, Kurt G. Hering, MD2, Narufumi Suganuma, MD, PhD3, and Rafael E. de la Hoz, MD, MPH, MSc4
1RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
2Knappschafstkrankenhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
3Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku 783–8505, Japan
4Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA