3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Asbestos, an extrinsic factor in the pathogenesis of bronchogenic carcinoma and mesothelioma
This was a retrospective report on 55 patients with pathologically proven pulmonary asbestosis seen at Lancaster General Hospital, Pennsylvania, between 1940 and 1965. All but one had worked in the same asbestos textile plant, which carded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Pulmonary asbestos body counts and electron probe analysis of asbestos body cores in patients with mesothelioma: a study of 25 cases
…fiberglass fibers. The malignant mesothelioma patients had asbestos body counts intermediate between those of the general population and those of patients with asbestosis, although some of the mesothelioma cases overlapped with the general population. These latter…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Malignant mesothelioma in British Columbia in 1982
…construction or insulation trades. In lung tissue from six men, chrysotile was within the general-population range, but amosite and crocidolite were raised about 300-fold on average; two men also had raised noncommercial amphiboles such…