117 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 6
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos fibers in the general population
…pleura. Counts did not differ significantly by sex or smoking. The authors concluded that substantial asbestos, mostly too small to form asbestos bodies, is present in the average urban lung and probably reflects general environmental contamination.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
US surgeon general ignites furor with findings on smoking in the workplace
…news article, not a research study. A freelance writer described the US Surgeon General's December 1985 Smoking and Health report on cancer and chronic lung disease in the workplace, and the reaction to it. According…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Asbestos fibers and pleural plaques in a general autopsy population
It has been claimed that symmetric lower zone pleural or diaphargmatic plaques are markers of asbestos exposure both in asbestos workers and the general population. In this study, total pulmonary asbestos burden was analyzed for 29…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Asbestos: toxicology and risk assessment for the general population in The Netherlands
…of Integrated Criteria Documents for priority compounds in The Netherlands, the possible health effects of oral and inhalatory exposure to asbestos for the general population were evaluated. It was concluded from the results of experiments in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Nonasbestos pulmonary mineral fibers in the general population
…sex, or smoking. It is concluded that (1) substantial numbers of nonasbestos fibers are present in lungs of the general population. Most of these fibers are short and of low aspect ratio; and (2) by phase…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Fiber size and number in workers exposed to processed chrysotile asbestos, chrysotile miners, and the general population
…chrysotile ore, 20 long-term chrysotile miners, and 20 members of the general population (controls). Significantly greater amounts of both chrysotile and tremolite were found in processed-ore workers and miners than in controls. On average…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Intrapulmonary lymph nodes. Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features
This article from Massachusetts General Hospital described ten patients with intrapulmonary lymph nodes (lymph nodes within the lung tissue) seen over two years, and reviewed 13 earlier reported cases. The patients were aged 36 to 73…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma in an urban hospital: clinical spectrum and trend in incidence over time
This retrospective review covered coded mesothelioma patients at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1973 through 1986. Of 75 cases, 64 were diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma; four peritoneal and seven benign fibrous cases were not analyzed. Of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Palliation of malignant ascites with a Tenckhoff catheter
This was a case report of one patient from the General Hospital, Birmingham. A 60-year-old man had a month of growing abdominal swelling and a painful, swollen right scrotum. For 20 years he had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Statistical analysis of data on airborne asbestos levels collected in an EPA survey of public buildings
Data from a recent EPA study of airborne asbestos levels in 49 buildings occupied by the General Services Administration (GSA) are statistically analyzed. The study focuses on differences between indoor and outdoor levels, and on differences…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Treatment of malignant tumors of the spermatic cord: a study of 10 cases and a review of the literature
This article described 10 patients treated at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1940 through 1977 for malignant tumors of the spermatic cord, and reviewed 191 published cases. The article does not mention asbestos or any…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Tetracycline sclerosis in the management of malignant pericardial effusion
Twenty-two patients with malignant pericardial effusion were seen at the Toronto General Hospital between 1979 and 1984. Under ECG monitoring, an indwelling Kifa catheter was inserted into the pericardial sac and then connected to a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Interpretation of pleural biopsy specimens and aspirates with the immunoperoxidase technique
This was a laboratory study of pleural tissue by pathologists at Southampton General Hospital. The authors tested whether staining for three markers of scavenger cells (alpha-1-antitrypsin, alpha-1-antichymotrypsin and lysozyme) could help tell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Demonstration of pleural mesothelioma by gallium scan
This case report, from The Buffalo General Hospital in Buffalo, New York, described one 77-year-old man. Fluid around his right lung contained poorly differentiated cancer cells of unknown origin, and other tests, including a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos-related pleural thickening: effect of threshold criteria on interpretation
This study, from the radiology department of Massachusetts General Hospital, examined how the rule for what counts as pleural thickening on a chest X-ray changes survey results. Chest radiographs from 1,216 workers at six…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos fibres and the environment
This article in a British Medical Journal series on pollution reviewed what was known about asbestos fibres and the risk to the general public. The author first discussed why cancer risk differed between groups of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Ovarian cancer and talc: a case-control study
Opportunities for genital exposure to talc were assessed in 215 white females with epithelial ovarian cancers and in 215 control women from the general population matched by age, race, and residence. Ninety-two (42.8%) cases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
The epidemiology and pathogenesis of malignant mesothelioma
In this brief review, the author set out to describe the general epidemiologic features of malignant mesothelioma of the pleura and peritoneum and to summarize understanding of how these tumors develop. He stated that, apart from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Dust levels in an asbestos-cement factory: problem solving
…Isasbest Ltd., an asbestos-cement pipe and sheet factory in Nahariya, Israel, written by the company's general manager. The plant employed approximately 340 workers, and its products averaged 90% cement and 10% asbestos. The article…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Interaction of asbestos, age, and cigarette smoking in producing radiographic evidence of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis
…populations with different levels of exposure to asbestos and with different cigarette smoking histories shows that smoking in the general population does not produce pulmonary fibrosis recognizable on chest radiography. In the general population of Michigan…