10 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Rheumatoid pneumoconiosis in association with asbestosis
…case report about one man. He was a 49-year-old electric arc-welder of 20 years, admitted to Maryland General Hospital with cough and mild shortness of breath on exertion. His chest X-ray showed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Prevalence of obstructive lung disease in a general population: relation to occupational title and exposure to some airborne agents
…benefit of reducing the healthy worker effect seen in studies of working populations. The prevalence of obstructive lung disease was examined in a Norwegian general population aged 18-73 in a two phased cross sectional survey…
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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 · 1958
Rheumatoid lung changes associated with asbestosis
…of rheumatoid lung disease. The patient was a 49-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis who had worked as a general labourer in an asbestos factory from January 1952 to January 1956. The article does not…
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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 · 1978
Malignant mesothelioma of the pleura in Barrow-in-Furness
…lungs has been measured in the last 20 cases, in 18 of whom it was found to be substantially greater than the accepted levels for the general population. In a small number studied by electron microscopy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Aetiology of pleural plaques
…previous disease was pleurisy with effusion, occurring in 9·7%. The general condition of those affected was excellent; only 8% were aware of the fact that pleural lesions were present. The disorder was found mainly in…
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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.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Asbestos, Simian virus 40 and malignant mesothelioma
…confirmation but raised the possibility that SV40 is an important cofactor. If about 5% of the general population and 60% of patients with mesothelioma carried the virus, this would suggest an approximately 30-fold increased risk…