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53 year old female: what doe biapical pleuroparenchymal scarring mean of ct scan scan?
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It means that person had bilateral pneumopleuretic disease in the lung apices, commonly due to infection, in the past and then the lesions become fibrotic (scarred) tissues.
Answered 5/2/2022
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