Pleural calcification, pleural mesotheliomas, and bronchial cancers caused by tremolite dust.
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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: Thorax
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.35.8.564