Asbestosis
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Subject Areas on Research
- Advances in occupational health.
- Amphiboles and chrysotile asbestos exposure.
- An epidemiological study of the role of chrysotile asbestos fibre dimensions in determining respiratory disease risk in exposed workers.
- Asbestos bodies in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. A study of 20 asbestos-exposed individuals and comparison to patients with other chronic interstitial lung diseases.
- Asbestos bodies in fine needle aspirates of the lung.
- Asbestos bodies in pulmonary hilar lymph nodes.
- Asbestos body content of the larnyx in asbestos workers. A study of five cases.
- Asbestos body phagocytosis by human free alveolar macrophages.
- Asbestos content of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. A comparison of light and scanning electron microscopic analysis.
- Asbestos content of lung tissue and carcinoma of the lung: a clinicopathologic correlation and mineral fiber analysis of 234 cases.
- Asbestos content of lung tissue in asbestos associated diseases: a study of 110 cases.
- Asbestos content of lung tissue in patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: A study of 42 cases.
- Asbestos exposure and asbestosis: clarifying terminology and avoiding confusion.
- Asbestos fiber content of lungs with diffuse interstitial fibrosis: An analytical scanning electron microscopic analysis of 249 cases.
- Asbestos in lung tissue.
- Asbestos, asbestosis, and cancer: the Helsinki criteria for diagnosis and attribution.
- Asbestos-related disease associated with exposure to asbestiform tremolite.
- Carcinoma of the lung in the absence of asbestosis: The value of lung fiber burden analysis.
- Change in prevalence of asbestos-related disease among sheet metal workers 1986 to 2004.
- Dendriform pulmonary ossification. Report of two cases with unique findings.
- Deposition, clearance, and translocation of chrysotile asbestos from peripheral and central regions of the rat lung.
- Diagnosis and initial management of nonmalignant diseases related to asbestos.
- Does asbestos or asbestosis cause carcinoma of the lung?
- Epidemiology of asbestos-related diseases.
- Exposure and mineralogical correlates of pulmonary fibrosis in chrysotile asbestos workers.
- Fiber analysis vignettes: Electron microscopy to the rescue!
- Fiber potency vs. importance.
- Human disease consequences of fiber exposures: a review of human lung pathology and fiber burden data.
- Inhaled asbestos activates a complement-dependent chemoattractant for macrophages.
- Iron and Iron-Related Proteins in Asbestosis.
- Lung cancer mortality among asbestos textile workers: a review and update.
- Lung cancer mortality and fibre exposures among North Carolina asbestos textile workers.
- Malignant mesothelioma in women.
- Mineralogy of asbestos.
- Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a respiratory screening program.
- Numbers of asbestos bodies on iron-stained tissue sections in relation to asbestos body counts in lung tissue digests.
- Occupational exposure to talc containing asbestos.
- Oxalate deposition on asbestos bodies.
- Pathology of Asbestosis: An Update of the Diagnostic Criteria Response to a Critique.
- Pathology of asbestosis- An update of the diagnostic criteria: Report of the asbestosis committee of the college of american pathologists and pulmonary pathology society.
- Product liability forecasting for asbestos-related personal injury claims: a multidisciplinary approach.
- Sarcomatoid mesothelioma: a clinical-pathologic correlation of 326 cases.
- Scanning electron microscopic analysis of mineral fiber content of lung tissue in the evaluation of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis.
- Scanning electron microscopic examination of human asbestos bodies.
- Scientists appeal to Quebec Premier Charest to stop exporting asbestos to the developing world.
- Surveillance of respiratory diseases among construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites.
- Twenty-five years of fiber analysis: what have we learned?
- Update on asbestos-associated pulmonary disease.
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Keywords of People
- Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine