5 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Intrapulmonary lymph nodes. Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features
This article from Massachusetts General Hospital described ten patients with intrapulmonary lymph nodes (lymph nodes within the lung tissue) seen over two years, and reviewed 13 earlier reported cases. The patients were aged 36 to 73…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
The epidemiology and pathogenesis of malignant mesothelioma
In this brief review, the author set out to describe the general epidemiologic features of malignant mesothelioma of the pleura and peritoneum and to summarize understanding of how these tumors develop. He stated that, apart from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Current issues in the pathologic and mineralogic diagnosis of asbestos-induced disease
…as the main problem. The author wrote that a million chrysotile fibers per gram of dry lung fit general-population background levels. A million amosite or crocidolite fibers per gram almost certainly indicated substantial occupational exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos bodies
…protein coat. They cited their own separate analysis, which examined the cores of over 600 bodies from more than 80 patients in the general population and found that the cores were asbestos. In that analysis, 98…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Comparison of light and electron microscopy for defining occupational asbestos exposure in transbronchial lung biopsies
…past occupational exposure is examined. Simulated transbronchial biopsy samples and open lung biopsy samples were collected from autopsy material from 12 former amosite asbestos workers and ten persons from the general population. Tissue evaluation included (1…