4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Palliation of malignant ascites with a Tenckhoff catheter
This was a case report of one patient from the General Hospital, Birmingham. A 60-year-old man had a month of growing abdominal swelling and a painful, swollen right scrotum. For 20 years he had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Interpretation of pleural biopsy specimens and aspirates with the immunoperoxidase technique
This was a laboratory study of pleural tissue by pathologists at Southampton General Hospital. The authors tested whether staining for three markers of scavenger cells (alpha-1-antitrypsin, alpha-1-antichymotrypsin and lysozyme) could help tell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
The pathology of asbestos related disease
…from 1 000 000 to several hundred million in severe asbestosis. It reported that mesothelioma cases in general had chrysotile counts no higher than controls. It described mesothelioma cases with no asbestos bodies in lung sections…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos and public health
…and urged care when removing asbestos from buildings. He noted that no ill effects had been shown from asbestos in drinking water, food or the general atmosphere, and that substitutes resembling asbestos might be similarly harmful.