6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Asbestosis and primary intrathoracic neoplasms
This paper from Britain's Factory Inspectorate analyzed death certificates recording asbestosis. Registrars General for England and Wales and for Scotland supplied the certificates routinely. It also briefly reviewed early reports linking asbestosis with lung cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Limitations in drawing etiologic inferences based on measurement of asbestos fibers from lung tissue
…exposure and disease cause from lung fiber and asbestos body counts. The author argued that autopsy subjects do not represent general-population deaths and that counts vary several-fold within one lung. Laboratory methods also differ…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Histological characteristics of mesothelioma associated with asbestos
…10 of them found among 307 consecutive deaths. Seven came from 26 consecutive asbestosis cases among 2500 autopsies at Middlesex General and Barnert Memorial Hospitals. Twelve came from 45 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology cases checked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…based on only 13 shipyard asbestosis deaths. Overall, shipyard insulators' mortality did not differ substantially from that of insulators in general. Second, in 1975 and 1976 the authors X-rayed 1000 volunteer workers at a shipyard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Pulmonary function in asbestosis: serial tests in a long-term prospective study
…of the 13 patients. There was also a fall in maximum breathing capacity, but in general they remained relatively well preserved. Air velocity indices showed an upward trend in more than half, and in only one…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of pleural calcification among asbestos insulation workers
…the pleura was found to be immune. The diagnostic importance of such unilateral calcification is stressed since even unilateral calcification is uncommon in the general population and when it occurs, a traumatic or infectious history can…