973 results for “General Electric”, page 5 of 49
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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 · 2010
The utility of electron microscopy in cytopathology
…utility of electron microscopy (EM) in cytopathology. 149,006 non-gynecologic cytology cases at the Massachusetts General Hospital between the years 1993 and 2006 were searched to identify those in which material had been submitted for…
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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 · 1970
Asbestos and asbestosis
This short 1970 paper was not a research study but a general overview. It was originally presented at a 1969 conference on asbestos exposure during brake and clutch maintenance, and the author was Group Medical Adviser…
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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 · 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 · 1970
Effect of hyaluronate on the electrophoretic migration of plasma proteins in pleural fluid
This 1970 report from the Department of Clinical Chemistry at Malmö General Hospital, Sweden, described laboratory findings in pleural fluid from one patient, a 60-year-old welder with fluid around both lungs (bilateral pleural effusions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos-associated disease in employees of Devonport Dockyard
This paper, from Plymouth General Hospital, England, brought together surveys and follow-up studies of men at Devonport Dockyard, which employed some 15,000 men, after 1966. Past exposure had been to chrysotile and, in most…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Assessment of occupational exposure to asbestos fibers: Contribution of analytical transmission electron microscopy analysis and comparison with phase-contrast microscopy
…to October 2010, the French general directorate for labor organized a large field-study using analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM) to characterize occupational exposure to asbestos fibers during work on asbestos containing materials (ACM). The primary…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Mediastinal and pleuropulmonary myeloid sarcoma with HBME1 and podoplanin expression. A diagnostic pitfall
This letter to the editor reported a single case: a 60-year-old man with general symptoms, shortness of breath and fluid around the lung (pleural effusion). A scan showed an 11 cm mass in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Malignant mesothelioma of tunica vaginalis testis: Report of a very rare case with review of the literature
This article was a case report from the Department of Urology of the General Hospital of Bolzano, Italy, followed by a discussion of earlier published reports. It described a 40-year-old patient admitted for routine…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Usefulness of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase and BRCA-associated protein 1 immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma in effusion cytology specimens
This retrospective study, using cases from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, asked whether a laboratory stain for a protein called MTAP helps tell malignant mesothelioma apart from harmless (reactive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Synchronous Jejunal Sarcomatoid Carcinoma and Incidentally Associated Localized Peritoneal Malignant Mesothelioma
This case report described one 67-year-old Japanese man treated at Shimada General Medical Center in Japan. He had a history of asbestos exposure in plumbing work 30 years earlier. The article did not name…
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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 · 2014
A feasibility study evaluating Surgery for Mesothelioma After Radiation Therapy: the "SMART" approach for resectable malignant pleural mesothelioma
This phase I/II feasibility study came from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Toronto General Hospital, Canada. It tested a treatment, SMART, for surgically removable malignant pleural mesothelioma. It did not study asbestos exposure. From November…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Malignant pleural mesothelioma and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database: an analysis of surgical morbidity and mortality
…vs 12.5%; P = .05). Extrapleural pneumonectomy is associated with greater morbidity and mortality compared with pleurectomy/decortication when performed by participating surgeons of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons-General Thoracic Database. Effects of center…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Individual experiences and impacts of a physiotherapist-led, non-pharmacological breathlessness programme for patients with intrathoracic malignancy: a qualitative study
This qualitative interview study, from North Tyneside General Hospital in the UK, asked patients with intrathoracic malignancy (lung cancer or pleural mesothelioma) about a physiotherapist-led breathlessness programme that did not use drugs. The programme taught…
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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 · 1977
The significance of asbestos exposure in the diagnosis of mesothelioma: a 28-year experience from a major urban hospital
This retrospective study reviewed all 36 patients coded with diffuse malignant mesothelioma at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from 1945 through 1972. The authors classed 17 cases as asbestos related, 14 through shipyard trades. They classed 19…