973 results for “General Electric”, page 4 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Inequities in reporting asbestos-related lung cancer: influence of smoking stigma and physician's specialty, workload and role perception
…claims for asbestos-related cancers, focusing on smokers' stigma and physicians' speciality and role perception. Cross-sectional telephone study of 486 randomly-selected general practitioners (GPs) and pulmonologists in south-eastern France. Standardised questionnaires explored their…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Occupational exposures to pollution
This article was a general overview of workplace exposure to pollutants, based on a talk the author gave at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1970. It reported no new research. The author discussed how…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Malignant pleural mesothelioma in a patient with pneumothorax: A cumbersome subtype both clinically and pathologically
This case report from Takatsuki General Hospital, Japan, described one patient whose malignant pleural mesothelioma the authors found very hard to diagnose. A 62-year-old woman had undergone surgery for recurrent pneumothorax (collapsed lung) on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Impact of induction therapy on postoperative outcome after extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: does induction-accelerated hemithoracic radiation increase the surgical risk?
This retrospective study from Toronto General Hospital, Canada, reviewed patients who had extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma between January 2001 and December 2014. In this operation the lung, outer chest lining, diaphragm and heart sac…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Glypican-1 immunohistochemistry does not separate mesothelioma from pulmonary adenocarcinoma
This laboratory study from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada tested whether a tissue stain for a protein called glypican-1 could help pathologists tell pleural mesothelioma apart from pulmonary (lung) adenocarcinoma. These two cancers can look…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Stent Implantation for Superior Vena Cava Syndrome of Malignant Cause
…If those were incomplete, secondary research was conducted using the cancer registry of the General Hospital Nuremberg, the cancer registry of the tumor center at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) or information given by physicians…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Chemicals: friends and foes
This two-page article was a general commentary, not a research study. The author, described as a former professor of chemistry, wrote about the benefits and dangers of chemicals used in homes, workplaces and the environment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Parental cancer and genetic predisposition in malignant pleural mesothelioma: a case-control study
This case-control study at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, asked whether people with pleural mesothelioma more often had a parent with cancer. The authors compared 39 MGH patients with histologically confirmed pleural mesothelioma, treated from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Monitoring the presence of asbestos in a residential apartment building
This paper gave a short general overview of asbestos, based on other sources, and a case study of one 12-storey building with 122 apartments in Regina, Saskatchewan, completed in 1972. Sprayed-on material on the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Administration of cisplatin in three patients with carboplatin hypersensitivity: is skin testing useful?
This case report from Sotiria General Hospital in Athens, Greece, described three patients who had allergic (hypersensitivity) reactions to the chemotherapy drug carboplatin. It is not a study of asbestos. Asbestos appears only because the first…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma
This case report from Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, described one patient with diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, a cancer of the abdominal lining. The patient was a 54-year-old male construction worker admitted with two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Squamous cell carcinoma of the colon in an asbestos worker
This case report from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, UK, described one 66-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma of the colon at the hepatic flexure. He was known to have pleural plaques caused by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Free-floating intra-peritoneal mesothelial cyst with histologic properties of amniotic epithelium in term pregnancy: Report of two cases
This case report described two women at Kuang Tien General Hospital in Taiwan in whom a loose, free-floating cyst was found unexpectedly in the abdomen during planned caesarean deliveries at full term. The first woman…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
CT and MR in pleural disease
This article is a narrative review by a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. It describes how computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are used to examine pleural disease, drawing on published studies. It reports…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma in an urban hospital: clinical spectrum and trend in incidence over time
This retrospective review covered coded mesothelioma patients at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1973 through 1986. Of 75 cases, 64 were diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma; four peritoneal and seven benign fibrous cases were not analyzed. Of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Are current or future mesothelioma epidemics in Hong Kong the tragic legacy of uncontrolled use of asbestos in the past?
This ecologic study examined mesothelioma in Hong Kong's general population. It used Hong Kong Cancer Registry records and asbestos trade figures (all fiber types combined, per person per year, 1960–2006). From 1976 to 2006…
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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 · 1971
The pathology of parietal pleural plaques
This 1971 autopsy study came from a Glasgow general hospital serving a heavily industrialized area near the Clyde shipyards. The author examined the chest linings of 334 hospital necropsies for hyaline plaques on the parietal pleura…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Tissue burden of asbestos in nonoccupationally exposed individuals from east Texas
The potential for asbestos exposure among members of the general population is appreciable, considering its widespread use in many products. This study examined tissue burden of asbestos in such a population. A group of 33 individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Proceedings: Asbestos carcinogenesis
This summary of a talk at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the British Association for Cancer Research reviewed cancers in people exposed to asbestos dust and whether they were linked to specific fibre types. Lung…