2 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Quantitative analysis of asbestos burden in a series of individuals with lung cancer and a history of exposure to asbestos
…Seventeen of the 20 cases were positive for ferruginous bodies (which were morphologically consistent with asbestos bodies). Five of these were found to have concentrations within the range used in our laboratory for the general population (
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
A technical comparison of evaluating asbestos concentration by phase-contrast microscopy (PCM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM) as illustrated from data generated from a case report
…333 asbestos fibers per gram of deparaffinized wet tissue. Both laboratories found asbestos bodies above the level the authors cite as the upper limit expected in the general population. The authors calculated that 97% of the…