The increasing use of high resolution computed tomography in formerly asbestos exposed workers requires valid diagnostic criteria for the findings which have to be reported as suspicious for being asbestos related in surveillance programs and for the assessment of causal relationships between former asbestos exposure and findings in computed tomography. The current paper gives examples for asbestos-related findings in HRCT and discusses the specificity of parenchymal and pleural changes due to asbestos fibres.
