Pathological confirmed diagnosis of asbestosis: the first case report in Thailand.

Asbestosis is an occupational lung disease defined as pulmonary fibrosis caused by asbestos. Asbestosis was previously reported in Thailand based on radiologic findings, which demonstrated interstitial lung with calcified pleural plaques, and the patient worked in a fiber cement factory. However there was some doubt about the diagnosis because clinical and radiological findings are nonspecific; there was no data support of asbestos exposure in the patient and no histologic confirmed diagnosis.