104 results for “Reaction Department”, page 1 of 6
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Mesothelioid reaction following talc pleurodesis: a case report
…Such a mesothelioid reaction can clinically and radiographically mimic malignant mesothelioma. We conclude that Talc pleurodesis played a causative role in this patient developing an intense mesothelioid reaction. A mesothelioid reaction should be included in the…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court · May 25, 1972 · in the opinion
Bambrick v. Asten Hill Mfg. Co. et al. (1972)
…nature. What Dr. Fite is describing are asbestos bodies and these are characteristic tissue reaction to the presence of asbestos fibers." (Emphasis added) (R. 41a-42a) It is true as stated by the majority that Dr…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Disseminated Pleural Siliconoma Mimicking Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
This case report from a thoracic surgery department in Ube, Japan, described one 48-year-old woman with multiple nodules on the lining of her left lung (the pleura). She had received silicone breast implants 10…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Can serum inflammatory parameters estimate outcome of pleurodesis in mesothelioma?
…be desirable. This study was aimed to investigate whether systemic inflammatory reaction induced by insuflation of talc into the pleura can predict the outcome of pleurodesis. A total of 58 consecutive patients (26 men, 32 women…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 11, 2020 · in the opinion
Olson v. Brenntag N. Am., Inc. (2020)
…present. And Ms. Olson's strong and immediate reaction to hearing about a possible connection between talcum powder and cancer suggests otherwise. The First Department decisions J&J cites are not to the contrary. In Sosna…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 9, 1991 · in the opinion
Wehmeier v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1991)
…On redirect, Abrams stated that, assuming (1) Cochran worked with amosite asbestos in the pipe department at the plant; and (2) Manville delivered 325 tons of chrysotile asbestos to the plant, Cochran could have inhaled some…
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Court case · Montana Workers' Comp. Court · May 5, 2014 · in the opinion
Baeth v. Liberty NW Ins. Corp. (2014)
…usually ten years, from the time of exposure to the time of evaluation; and (3) evidence of structural changes caused by a reaction to the asbestos fibers.\[40\] ¶ 31 Dr. Black further explained that getting an…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 22, 2012 · in the opinion
Feinberg v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. (2012)
…term use. Plaintiffs suffered severe neurological reactions from taking the generic form of the drug and brought state tort claims against the manufacturers of metoclopramide for failing to adequately warn them of such danger. The basis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Pulmonary granulomatous reaction: talc pneumoconiosis or chronic sarcoidosis?
A chronic pulmonary granulomatous reaction was associated with an almost identical clinical picture in two patients exposed to talc. In both patients lung biopsy showed the deposition of talc particles and a heavy granulomatous reaction. At…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Toxic epidermal necrolysis related to Cisplatin and pemetrexed for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is an uncommon but life-threatening adverse drug reaction. Pemetrexed is a multitargeted antifolate. It was first used in combination with cisplatin as a front-line treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy caused by non-pleural or pulmonary tumors
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome characterized by digital clubbing, periosteal reaction, polyarthralgia, arthritis, and synovitis. Herein, we report a case series of patients with secondary HOA caused by non-pleural or pulmonary tumors…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1948
Morbidity and Mortality in Talc Granuloma: Report of a Fatal Case
This 1948 article reported one fatal case of talc granuloma, a reaction to talcum powder used on surgical gloves and rubber drains. The patient, a woman, was first operated on in December 1942, at age 36…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
BAP1 Immunohistochemistry and p16 FISH in the Diagnosis of Sarcomatous and Desmoplastic Mesotheliomas
…help diagnose sarcomatous and desmoplastic mesotheliomas. These tumors can be hard to distinguish from organizing pleuritis, a benign reaction of the pleura. The authors tested tissue from 20 such pleural mesotheliomas, from 18 men and 2…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
US surgeon general ignites furor with findings on smoking in the workplace
…research study. A freelance writer described the US Surgeon General's December 1985 Smoking and Health report on cancer and chronic lung disease in the workplace, and the reaction to it. According to the article, the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Pulmonary talc granulomatosis. A complication of drug abuse
…who had injected methylphenidate (Ritalin) tablets into their veins. Granulomatosis here means small clusters of inflammatory cells forming in the lungs in reaction to talc particles. The authors explained that talc is used as a filler…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Pemetrexed-induced painful erythematous nodules in both legs in a patient with recurrent mesothelioma
…supported considering the reaction a drug-induced hypersensitivity. They reported her as the first patient described with such lesions while receiving pemetrexed for mesothelioma, adding a nodular form to the known skin reactions to this drug…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
CAR T-cell therapy for lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma
…The review also described earlier studies. One was a University of Pennsylvania trial that treated four patients; one patient had a serious anaphylactic reaction. Others were the authors' own mouse experiments, in which giving mesothelin-targeted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Immunohistological staining of reactive mesothelium, mesothelioma, and lung carcinoma with a panel of monoclonal antibodies
…but was present in most of the lung carcinomas. CEA seemed to be the single most useful marker in distinguishing carcinoma from mesothelioma in that a positive reaction for CEA would indicate carcinoma rather than mesothelioma.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Positive FDG-PET/CT of the pleura twenty years after talc pleurodesis: three cases of benign talcoma
…This inflammatory reaction could decrease with time, as in other inflammatory processes. Since talc is not metabolized by the body, the FDG-PET scan can remain positive, most likely because of a foreign-body granulomatous reaction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Tissue response to intraperitoneal asbestos with preliminary report of acute toxicity of heart-treated asbestos in mice
…plaques and invasive granulomas, while none of 12 talc mice did. The authors described the reaction as histologically similar to mesothelioma but obtained no morphologic evidence of actual malignancy. In a second experiment, asbestos heated to…