3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…from highest to lowest risk: direct occupational, indirect occupational, neighborhood, and household and family. They said the risk from general environmental exposure was not known. They described pleural effusions, pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Sudden death of an elderly man with multiple malignant neoplasms
…section reported asbestos body counts in the lung bases higher than background. The discussion instead stated that levels were within background for the general population, but that the left lower lobe had a significantly higher count…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Forensic detection and investigation of occupational-environmental disease
…been found in 7 to 11% of deaths after asbestos exposure, compared with about 0.1 or 0.01% of deaths in the nonexposed general population. It also stated that pleural plaques and asbestos (ferruginous) bodies…