4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Asbestos, an extrinsic factor in the pathogenesis of bronchogenic carcinoma and mesothelioma
This was a retrospective report on 55 patients with pathologically proven pulmonary asbestosis seen at Lancaster General Hospital, Pennsylvania, between 1940 and 1965. All but one had worked in the same asbestos textile plant, which carded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The mesotheliomas of the small intestine
…of small-intestine tumours recorded no case of mesothelioma of the small intestine. The patient, a 56-year-old Sinhalese man, was admitted to the General Hospital, Colombo, in December 1962 with gross abdominal swelling, pain…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Histological characteristics of mesothelioma associated with asbestos
…10 of them found among 307 consecutive deaths. Seven came from 26 consecutive asbestosis cases among 2500 autopsies at Middlesex General and Barnert Memorial Hospitals. Twelve came from 45 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology cases checked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Occupational and "non-occupational" asbestosis in Finland
…peritoneal tumors were not more frequent in the calcification area than in other rural east Finland. The author said the hazard could be controlled, but that too little was known about danger to the general population.