3 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 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 · 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…