9 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
The pathology of parietal pleural plaques
This 1971 autopsy study came from a Glasgow general hospital serving a heavily industrialized area near the Clyde shipyards. The author examined the chest linings of 334 hospital necropsies for hyaline plaques on the parietal pleura…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos in tumours
This is a short abstract of a talk given at the 86th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists, by an author at the M.R.C. Pneumoconiosis Unit in Penarth, Glamorgan. It is not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Exfoliative cytology of diffuse mesothelioma
This article was a case series from the Pathology Department of the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. The authors described the cells found in fluid samples from 14 patients with diffuse mesothelioma: pleural fluid from 11…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Immunohistochemistry in the distinction between malignant mesothelioma and pulmonary adenocarcinoma: a critical evaluation of new antibodies
This laboratory study, based on archived tissue at Southampton General Hospital, tested whether newer antibody stains could help pathologists tell malignant mesothelioma apart from lung adenocarcinoma. The authors stained tissue from 41 malignant mesotheliomas (1990 to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Significance of asbestos in lung tissue
…is an abstract of a talk the author, of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in Penarth, gave at the 88th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. It reports no patients, measurements or numerical study results…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Primary mesothelioma of atrioventricular node: cause of sudden death
…by epithelial cells within dense fibrous tissue, which destroyed much of the conducting tissue. The author noted general agreement that this kind of lesion is congenital, meaning present from birth, but some disagreement about where it…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
New marker for mesothelioma: an immunoperoxidase study
…to most epithelial tumour tissues. It also stained reactive and malignant mesothelial cells in fluid smears. The authors noted that the antibody marks mesothelial cells in general, not only mesothelioma cells. They concluded it may help…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Epidemiological and quantitative relationships between mesothelioma and asbestos on Tyneside
…fibres remains statistically significant. The data suggest that, on Tyneside, exposure to asbestos sufficient to cause an appreciable risk of developing mesothelioma has usually occurred through occupational exposure rather than by general environmental pollution by asbestos.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Microwave polymerisation of epoxy resin: rapid processing technique in ultrastructural pathology
…than 2mm across polymerised slightly unevenly. A lymphoma sample given both microwave fixation and polymerisation was of very acceptable quality. The authors concluded that microwave polymerisation is practicable, although its general usefulness remained to be established.