163 results for “Reaction Department”, page 1 of 9
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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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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 8, 1982 · in the opinion
White v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
…June 1948 until June 1980). During those years he worked in various departments of Johns-Manville including the transite pipe plant where he was exposed to asbestos fibers and silica, the asbestos shingle plant where he…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982 · in the opinion
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
…and a study to be published by the Labor Department estimates that at least 8,500 workers — perhaps as many as 10,000 — will die each year until the end of this century from asbestos-related…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995 · in the opinion
Ripa v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
…Vorwald to Hazard suggesting that Kaylo produced an asbestosis-like reaction in the lungs and that "every precaution should be taken to minimize exposure of industrial employees." (9) The final confidential January 1952 project report concluding…
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Disease
What is asbestosis
…and is injured or destroyed in the attempt, releasing the inflammatory signals that keep the cycle of damage going (right). That failed-clearance reaction, called frustrated phagocytosis, is a central reason long amphibole fibers are the…
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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 · Texas Court of Appeals · November 18, 1993 · in the opinion
Srite v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1993)
…in physical pain. Mr. Ben had been employed at the Petrotex Refinery in the labor department as an insulator. He worked on a daily basis as a sandblaster throughout his tenure at Petrotex, from 1958 until…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Fiber localization and its relationship to lung reaction in rats after chronic inhalation of chrysotile asbestos
…with histologic changes indicating marked epithelial injury. Increased amounts of fibers are also localized in the lung interstitium with continued exposure to asbestos and are associated with a progressive interstitial fibrotic reaction. Following cessation of exposure…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 1986
Gallium scanning in differentiating malignant from benign asbestos-related pleural disease
…no history of exposure. Scans were also positive in 3 of the 16 patients with benign disease (19%), and tissue removed from these three showed a strong inflammatory reaction. Among asbestos-exposed patients, the scan's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Immune adherence reactivity of rat alveolar macrophages following inhalation of crocidolite asbestos
…a statistically significant difference. Sheep red cells, which cannot take part in this reaction, stuck far less to macrophages from exposed rats. Treating the cells with antiserum against the complement component C3 reduced adherence to 4…