Figure 5.

The number of asbestos bodies in the lung for the 10 cases where the clinical and radiological diagnoses matched the pathological diagnosis for asbestosis; the 6 cases where the clinical, radiological, and pathologically findings showed typical asbestos; the 17 cases of asbestosis diagnosed based on clinical findings and radiology; and 16 cases of pathologically diagnosed asbestosis. In the case of typical asbestosis, all 6 cases had more than 1,000,000 bodies. However, among the 17 asbestosis cases diagnosed based on clinical and radiological findings, 3 cases had less than 5,000 bodies.