Focal pleural tumorlike conditions: Nodules and masses beyond mesotheliomas and metastasis
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Pleural calcification, pleural mesotheliomas, and bronchial cancers caused by tremolite dust.
Around the town of Cermik in south-east Turkey there are many deposits of asbestiform minerals, some of which are used to make whitewash or stucco. A sample of 7000 of the population revealed 461 (6.5%) with pleural thickening and calcification, of whom 103 (1.47% of the total) had evidence of interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. Forty-one patients with respiratory cancer were admitted to the Diyar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2015.06.004