5 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 · 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 · 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.