158 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 8
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Risk of cancer among Danish utility workers--a nationwide cohort study
…with 2,825 expected, yielding a small but significantly increased risk of 1.06 (95% confidence interval 1.03-1.10) among the utility workers in comparison with the general population. No excess was observed for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis with possible occupational asbestos exposure
…a man with possible occupational asbestos exposure. A 45-year-old white man who had worked in an electrical power plant developed a painless mass in the right testicle. He was first treated for presumed epididymitis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Does occupational exposure to brown coal dust cause a decline in lung function?
…time windows. This study was conducted over a period of 14 years from 1980 to 1994 and used data collected by the State Electricity Commission (SEC) Lung Function Unit for an asbestos surveillance programme. The subjects…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
General thoracic surgery
This article was a review by a single author of recently published work in general thoracic surgery. It was not a new study. It covered lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, lung volume reduction surgery, video-assisted thoracic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Pleural plaques in the general population
…pleural plaques to measure the impact of asbestos on the general population of Uppsala county, Sweden, which had a population of 250,782 in 1985. A general health survey invited all inhabitants aged 15 and over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Performance of two general job-exposure matrices in a study of lung cancer morbidity in the Zutphen cohort
…of lung cancer morbidity incidence. The two general job-exposure matrices generally disagreed with regard to exposure classification because of differences in exposure assessment and level of detail of the job axis. When compared with self…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Prevalence of obstructive lung disease in a general population: relation to occupational title and exposure to some airborne agents
…benefit of reducing the healthy worker effect seen in studies of working populations. The prevalence of obstructive lung disease was examined in a Norwegian general population aged 18-73 in a two phased cross sectional survey…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Chrysotile biopersistence in the lungs of persons in the general population and exposed workers
…form, with both fibers and fibrils > 5 microns in length. Comparison of the lung fiber content of occupationally exposed persons with that of the general population showed marked qualitative and quantitative differences. Fibers are durable…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related radiographic changes by ILO classification of 10 x 10 cm chest X-rays in a screening of the general population
The authors re-read a sample of 1388 small (10 × 10 cm) chest X-rays from an earlier screening of men aged 40 and over in Telemark county, Norway. Of these, 1036 came from an industrial town and 352 from a rural community. One experienced reader,…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Detection of mineral fibre carcinogenicity with the intraperitoneal test--recent results and their validity
The general experimental design of intraperitoneal (i.p.) carcinogenicity studies with inorganic fibres in rats is described. In a current study, in addition to glass microfibres, size-separated fine respirable fractions of commercial insulation wools (MMVF…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Nature of exposure to chrysotile
Fibres in general, and chrysotile fibres in particular, have properties that set them apart from other airborne particles in terms of their aerodynamic behaviour and the nature of their interactions with cells and fluids in vivo…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Parental cancer and genetic predisposition in malignant pleural mesothelioma: a case-control study
This case-control study at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, asked whether people with pleural mesothelioma more often had a parent with cancer. The authors compared 39 MGH patients with histologically confirmed pleural mesothelioma, treated from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Monitoring the presence of asbestos in a residential apartment building
This paper gave a short general overview of asbestos, based on other sources, and a case study of one 12-storey building with 122 apartments in Regina, Saskatchewan, completed in 1972. Sprayed-on material on the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Squamous cell carcinoma of the colon in an asbestos worker
This case report from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, UK, described one 66-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma of the colon at the hepatic flexure. He was known to have pleural plaques caused by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
CT and MR in pleural disease
This article is a narrative review by a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. It describes how computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are used to examine pleural disease, drawing on published studies. It reports…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Tissue burden of asbestos in nonoccupationally exposed individuals from east Texas
The potential for asbestos exposure among members of the general population is appreciable, considering its widespread use in many products. This study examined tissue burden of asbestos in such a population. A group of 33 individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
The utility of ancillary techniques in effusion cytology
We believe that, in general, immunocytochemical studies when used as a panel are the most helpful of the ancillary techniques in the workup of a difficult effusion cytology case. Routine histochemical stains for mucin should also…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Videothoracoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma with associated pleural effusions
This retrospective review covered 46 patients at Valencia University General Hospital, Spain, diagnosed from 1985 to 1994 with pleural mesothelioma and fluid around the lung (pleural effusion), and examined with a camera inserted into the chest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
A comparison of asbestos burden in lung parenchyma, lymph nodes, and plaques
…plaques and pleura are not useful for mineral analysis, and they designed the study to test it. Tissue was collected at autopsy at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, Italy, from eight former shipyard workers (seven men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos lung burden and asbestosis after occupational and environmental exposure in an asbestos cement manufacturing area: a necropsy study
This necropsy (autopsy) study examined lung tissue from the consecutive autopsies done at the General Hospital of Casale Monferrato, Italy, home to a large asbestos cement factory, from July 1985 to July 1988. Of 55 autopsies…