Asbestos-related pleural and lung fibrosis in patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis

Toomas Uibu¹ , Ritva Järvenpää¹ , Jari Hakomäki¹ , Anssi Auvinen² , Eero Honkanen³ , Kaj Metsärinne⁴ , Pekka Roto⁵ , Heikki Saha¹ , Jukka Uitti⁶ and Panu Oksa⁶

¹  Departments of Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, and Internal Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

²  Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

³  Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

⁴  Department of Internal Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

⁵  Finnish Health Centers LTD, Tampere, Finland

⁶  Clinic of Occupational Medicine, Tampere University Hospital and Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Tampere, Finland