54 results for “Reaction Department”, page 1 of 3
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Usefulness of Claudin 4 in the cytological diagnosis of serosal effusions
…peritoneum (6), were found to be positive. Claudin 4 was also extremely useful in detecting single-tumor cells dispersed among heavy inflammatory reaction. Because of its high sensitivity (99.1%) and specificity (100%), Claudin 4 might…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Ultrastructural histochemistry of mesotheliomas and adenocarcinomas in malignant effusions
…along the outer surface of the cell aggregates, while carcinomas displayed a positive reaction either on the outer surface or on both inner and outer surfaces of the clusters. The diagnostic significance of the above-mentioned…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · August 28, 1996 · in the opinion
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Garrett (1996)
…effect. That OCF had direct knowledge of the hazardous nature of asbestos was evident in 1941, when one of the lawyers in its Legal and Patent Department, having received a letter from a Saranac Doctor, expressed…
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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 · 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 · 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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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · January 21, 1994 · in the opinion
Tabolt v. Flintkote Co. (In re New York Asbestos Litigation, 1994)
Flintkote's argument that this procedure provides a double recovery for inflation was rejected after thorough attention by the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, Fourth Department, in Brown v. State, 184 A.D…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Tenascin expression and distribution in pleural inflammatory and fibrotic diseases
…as a marker of active pleural involvement. For this purpose we analyzed 71 histological samples of inflammatory and fibrotic pleura from patients with asbestos-induced pleural reaction (n = 6), postcardiac injury syndrome (n = 6…
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Court case · Arizona Supreme Court · November 19, 1982
Nelson v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona (1982)
…The court found that Mrs. Nelson had a meritorious excuse. Doctors and neighbors described an abnormal grief reaction that impaired her understanding, and the delay did not prejudice the carriers. It set aside the award and…
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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 · 1987
Cytogenetic findings in an effusion secondary from pleural mesothelioma
…years earlier a similar episode had been diagnosed as tuberculous pleuritis. Routine examination of cells in the fluid showed only a nonspecific reaction of the lining cells, and a pleural biopsy found no signs of cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Pleural granuloma mimicking malignancy 42 years after slurry talc injection for primary spontaneous pneumothorax
…malignant cells or asbestos fibers. Keyhole surgery was converted to open surgery and the pleura was removed. The pathologist diagnosed chronic granulomatous pleuritis caused by a foreign body reaction, likely talc. Only on detailed questioning did…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Chronic follicular pleuritis: a B cell-rich form of nonspecific pleuritis/fibrosis
…pleuritis/fibrosis (NSP) is rendered. The histology of this reaction has not been well described including a pattern of B cell lymphoid hyperplasia described as "chronic follicular pleuritis (CFP)". Thirty-two cases of NSP were studied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…and its numerous applications. Its biological effects, which include fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis, may be related to the cellular reaction, to its large specific surface, or to the size and shape of the fibers. Its oncogenic action…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Railroad workers with pleural plaques: II. Small airway dysfunction among asbestos-exposed workers
…groups the VTG:TLC ratio was elevated compared with controls. Increased VTG is a sign of small airways dysfunction. In asbestos-exposed subjects, it might be caused by an early peribronchial reaction to inhaled asbestos fibers.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue type arising in the pleura with pleural fibrous plaques in a lathe worker
…pleura and diffuse infiltration of small- to medium-sized B lymphocytes. Polymerase chain reaction-based analysis detected monoclonal rearrangement of immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes. Histologic diagnosis was extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 29, 1988 · in the opinion
Pecorino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…pleaded that the Defendants' breach of these various duties (as well as the fact that these products precipitated great harm which was not a consequence of any unique or unforeseeable reaction of the user) caused Mr…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 28, 2001 · in the opinion
Abadie v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2001)
…asbestos fibers, once inhaled, remain in place in the lung, causing a tissue reaction that is slowly progressive and apparently irreversible. Even if no additional fibers are inhaled, tissue damage may continue undetected for decades. Furthermore…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Additional proteins in BAL fluid of Metsovites environmentally exposed to asbestos: more evidence of "protection" against neoplasia?
…The two proteins were present in all Metsovites with PCs but in none without PCs and also in none of the control groups. This study further separates two groups of Metsovites with different reaction to asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Comparison of antibodies to HBME-1 and calretinin for the detection of mesothelial cells in effusion cytology
…identifying mesothelial cells in cytologic samples, showing the highest sensitivity for mesothelial cells, as evidenced by a more intense staining reaction in a higher percentage of cells than with HBME-1. Published 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.