125 results for “General Electric”, page 3 of 7
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Synchronous Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Sigmoid Adenocarcinoma: a Challenging Clinical Entity
…the final diagnosis was sigmoid adenocarcinoma with synchronous MPM. The patient was started on palliative chemotherapy (capecitabine) without active management of MPM because of her general condition. She was followed up with a good clinical course…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Pathological and environmental aspects of asbestos-associated diseases
…It summarised other researchers' work. Doll (1955) reported that asbestos workers had a lung cancer death rate ten times that of the general population. Selikoff and colleagues (1968) reported that asbestos insulation workers who smoked regularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Impact of malignant mesothelioma in Taiwan: a 27-year review of population-based cancer registry data
…7.6 for males and 13.5 for females. Compared with the age- and sex-matched general population, the authors estimated 14.2 expected years of life lost per case (95% confidence interval 12.8 to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Primary diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: case report and update of therapy
…on light microscopy, histochemistry, and immunohistochemistry. Patient had no further treatment because of her poor general conditions. She died 4 months later. Update of treatment is briefly described with particular attention to multimodality approach (surgery, chemotherapy…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos as an industrial health hazard
…and millers, were placed slightly lower. It said the general population did not appear to be at risk, but past cancers had occurred in people living downwind of factories and in people in workers' homes. It…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Fever, hepatic lesions and ascites
…diagnosis of peritoneal mesothelioma. The Missouri State Geologist told a discussant there was no asbestos in the quarry where the patient had worked. When asked in general terms, the patient denied asbestos exposure. Only specific questions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Histological characteristics of mesothelioma associated with asbestos
…10 of them found among 307 consecutive deaths. Seven came from 26 consecutive asbestosis cases among 2500 autopsies at Middlesex General and Barnert Memorial Hospitals. Twelve came from 45 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology cases checked…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 27, 1990
Chevron USA v. Workers'comp. Appeals BD. (1990)
…mesothelioma was not an outgrowth of the asbestosis. It also held that a 1986 California Supreme Court case, General Foundry, did not require a single date of injury. It denied the family's request for attorney…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Familial mesothelioma: a report of two families
…asbestos bodies per gram of wet lung tissue. This was well within the lower limits seen in the general urban population with no occupational history of asbestos exposure. The authors concluded that genetic factors may be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Desmoplastic malignant mesothelioma originating from the peritoneum
…The article did not say whether this patient had been exposed to asbestos. It mentioned asbestos only as a known general risk factor, and the authors wrote that the link between peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos is…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Peritoneal mesothelioma: the role of computed tomography in diagnosis and follow up
…On follow-up, seven of eight patients showed increasing disease, but this was judged by general impression rather than precise measurement. The authors found no CT feature that was diagnostic. They concluded that CT is at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Epidemiological and quantitative relationships between mesothelioma and asbestos on Tyneside
…fibres remains statistically significant. The data suggest that, on Tyneside, exposure to asbestos sufficient to cause an appreciable risk of developing mesothelioma has usually occurred through occupational exposure rather than by general environmental pollution by asbestos.
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Court case · California Supreme Court · December 1, 2016 · in the opinion
Kesner v. Superior Court and Haver (2016)
781.) In general, internalizing the cost of injuries caused by a particular behavior will induce changes in that behavior to make it safer. That consideration may be "outweighed, for a category of negligent conduct, by laws…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · August 24, 2020 · in the opinion
Finch v. Covil Corporation (2020)
As we have explained: \[J\]ury instructions articulate general principles of law that decide cases. Of course appellate opinions may guide a district judge's discretion in formulating jury instructions, or even bear upon the formation…
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Court case · Minnesota Supreme Court · May 14, 1982 · in the opinion
DeCosse v. Armstrong Cork Co. (1982)
…the court concluded that because the tolling provisions of the general limitations statute were in existence prior to the enactment of the wrongful death statute the legislature "could not possibly have had in mind that the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · May 15, 2000
Hamilton v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (2000)
…Court reversed the Court of Appeal, holding that Mitchell's second action (for mesothelioma) was not time-barred and that Asbestos Corporation made a general appearance in the first action, so the plaintiffs prevailed on both…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Primary malignant deciduoid peritoneal mesothelioma: a report of the cytohistological and immunohistochemical appearances
…deciduoid mesothelioma (MDM) is a rare variant of epithelioid mesothelioma. This type of tumor might be associated with the asbestos exposure and carries a poor prognosis in general. MDM was first described by Nascimento et al…
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Court case · Utah Supreme Court · January 30, 2015 · in the opinion
Riggs v. Georgia-Pacific LLC (2015)
…we were faced with a statutory conflict between the general statute of limitations for wrongful death claims and the statute of limitations found in Utah's Health Care Malpractice Act.\[26\] There we applied the more…