9 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos fibre in the lung and mesothelioma. A re-examination of the Malmö material
An examination of general lung tissue with an electron microscope for asbestos fibres is reported. The 65 cases examined consisted of 33 cases of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and 32 control cases. Asbestos fibres were found…
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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 · 1970
Peritoneal mesothelioma. A report of 4 cases
…reported four cases of peritoneal mesothelioma, a tumour of the lining of the abdomen. All four were seen within 12 months of each other at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. The patients were a man who…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Pathological and environmental aspects of asbestos-associated diseases
…It summarised other researchers' work. Doll (1955) reported that asbestos workers had a lung cancer death rate ten times that of the general population. Selikoff and colleagues (1968) reported that asbestos insulation workers who smoked regularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos as an industrial health hazard
…and millers, were placed slightly lower. It said the general population did not appear to be at risk, but past cancers had occurred in people living downwind of factories and in people in workers' homes. It…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Fever, hepatic lesions and ascites
…diagnosis of peritoneal mesothelioma. The Missouri State Geologist told a discussant there was no asbestos in the quarry where the patient had worked. When asked in general terms, the patient denied asbestos exposure. Only specific questions…
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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 · 1979
French mesothelioma register
…the ages of 47 and 41 years, respectively, the annual death rate was higher in those with mesothelioma than in those of the general population. The proportions of mesothelioma patients who had experienced occupational, para-occupational…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Ultrastructure of human mesotheliomas
…intermingled on the same cell. One biopsy specimen that did not conform to this general pattern was proved at autopsy to be a bronchial carcinoma with secondary spread into the pleural cavity. This indicated that electron…