77 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 4
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
The analysis of lagging materials for asbestos: CEGB procedures
This article, by an author from the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), described how the Board sampled and analysed thermal insulation (lagging) in its power stations for asbestos, and reviewed the analytical methods it used. It…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos: some nonradiological aspects
…types. It listed exposure sources including mining, insulation work, ship-breaking, demolition, electricians near laggers, and air pollution from brake linings. It stated that any type can cause asbestosis, which was becoming rare. Citing Doll (1965)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Analysis of the cores of asbestos bodies from members of the general population: patients with probable low-degree exposure to asbestos
…to 9,000 of such bodies/g of lung tissue, a concentration frequently found in manual laborers in the general population who are not primary asbestos workers. All of the 123 bodies examined by electron diffraction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Prevalence of pleural calcification in persons exposed to asbestos dust, and in the general population in the same district
…not minus only the 8. Each exposed group had more cases than expected from the general population (workers: 42 against an expected 2.75). The authors reported these differences as statistically significant at the 1% level…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Computer tomography in the evaluation of pulmonary asbestosis. Preliminary experiences with the EMI general purpose scanner
…from Harrow, England, described early experience using computer tomography (CT) with the EMI general purpose scanner in 13 patients exposed to asbestos for between one and 40 years. Each had 5 to 8 CT sections, which…
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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 · 1971
Occupational exposures to pollution
This article was a general overview of workplace exposure to pollutants, based on a talk the author gave at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1970. It reported no new research. The author discussed how…
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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 · 1975
Proceedings: Asbestos carcinogenesis
This summary of a talk at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the British Association for Cancer Research reviewed cancers in people exposed to asbestos dust and whether they were linked to specific fibre types. Lung…
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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 · 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 · 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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Distant visceral metastases in pleural mesothelioma
This was an autopsy study from the pathology department of the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, of 32 cases of pleural mesothelioma. Each case was confirmed under the microscope after a post-mortem examination. The article did…
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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 · 1978
Asbestos exposure and related neoplasia. The 28 year experience of a major urban hospital
This was a retrospective review of hospital records for all 49 patients diagnosed with asbestosis at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1945 through 1972. Asbestosis was confirmed by tissue examination in 36 patients and diagnosed…
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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 · 1972
Electron microscope characteristics of inhaled chrysotile asbestos fibre
This study described how chrysotile asbestos looks under the electron microscope in human lung tissue. The author examined specimens from about 300 lungs: general population groups, people with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and their controls, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
The radiological manifestations of malignant pleural mesothelioma
…was a case series. The authors reviewed the hospital charts and chest X-rays of 10 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma seen at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1960 to 1967. There were 8 men…