4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
New developments in asbestos-induced pleural disease
…plaques and diffuse pleural thickening, together called pleural fibrosis. It reported that across 16 general-population autopsy studies, pleural plaques were found in 857 of 7,085 autopsies (12.2 percent, range 0.5 to 39…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Environmental airborne tremolite asbestos pollution and pleural plaques in Afghanistan
…and that this hazard may be encountered in Afghanistan. They could not obtain detailed information on how common pleural plaques on chest X-rays are in the general population of the Kabul area and Loghar region.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos and the pleura: a review
…the evidence indicated plaques do not increase cancer risk, though this was far from a universal view. They reported general agreement that diffuse pleural thickening can cause significant restrictive ventilatory impairment. For mesothelioma, they reviewed incidence…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
The role of cytologic evaluation of pleural fluid in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma
…cytologic slides of patients with pleural MM were reviewed. Medical records were reviewed from two institutions: a large general hospital and a cancer hospital. Twenty-nine patients ranging in age from 32 to 81 years (mean…