33 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Case report: peritoneal mesothelioma from asbestos in hairdryers
…a blow dryer 1 to 2 feet from her face. She reported using only asbestos-containing hairdryer models (Conair, General Electric, Gillette) from 1976 to 1982. The article lists chrysotile as a keyword but does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos fibre in the lung and mesothelioma. A re-examination of the Malmö material
An examination of general lung tissue with an electron microscope for asbestos fibres is reported. The 65 cases examined consisted of 33 cases of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and 32 control cases. Asbestos fibres were found…
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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 · 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 · 2012
Peritoneal mesothelioma masquerading as an inguinal hernia
This was a case report about one patient treated in the Department of General Surgery at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, UK. An 80-year-old retired steel worker came to hospital with what looked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Exfoliative cytology of diffuse mesothelioma
This article was a case series from the Pathology Department of the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. The authors described the cells found in fluid samples from 14 patients with diffuse mesothelioma: pleural fluid from 11…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Peritoneal mesothelioma. A report of 4 cases
…reported four cases of peritoneal mesothelioma, a tumour of the lining of the abdomen. All four were seen within 12 months of each other at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. The patients were a man who…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer and mesothelioma in the pleura and peritoneum among Swedish insulation workers
…some years after the exposure had ended. In a cohort study the cancer morbidity and cause of death was investigated in 248 insulation workers and compared with the corresponding morbidity and mortality in the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Patterns in the incidence, mortality and survival of malignant pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, New South Wales, 1972-2009
…in 2009. The rate for men peaked at 5.7 per 100,000 (95% CI 4.7–6.6) in 1994. Relative survival compares patients with the general population. For people diagnosed 2000 to 2006, five…
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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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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…