Asbestos and DiseaseElsevier Science, 28 ago 1978 - 549 pagine Asbestos and Disease provides a much-needed comprehensive compendium and presentation of accumulated information on asbestos and disease. Organized into five parts, this book begins with the nature, occurrence, properties, mining, milling, manufacturing, and use of asbestos minerals. Some chapters follow on the identification, quantification, and environmental distribution of asbestos fibers. This book also tackles the asbestotic and neoplastic effects of asbestos. The pathogenic mechanisms, prevention, and control of asbestos are also addressed. This work will provide nonspecialists with easily comprehensible and meaningful data that will assist them in their endeavors in this field. |
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Asbestos and Its Distribution | 1 |
Nature Occurrence and Properties | 33 |
Mining Milling Manufacturing and | 51 |
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airways alveolar amosite amphibole anthophyllite appear asbes asbestos bodies asbestos dust asbestos exposure asbestos fibers asbestos workers asbestosis autopsies biopsy bronchioles calcification carcinogenic carcinoma cells Chapter chrysotile cigarette smoking clinical cohort concentrations of asbestos containing crocidolite deaths deposition diagnosis diameter diffuse disease dose effusion electron microscopy epithelial evidence examined exposure to asbestos factors fibrils fibrous filter gastrointestinal increased indicated industry inhalation initial exposure injection kind permission lung cancer macrophages malignant material membrane mesothelioma mill mineral Mount Sinai neoplasms Newhouse occupational occur opacities parenchymal parenchymal asbestosis particles particularly patients period peritoneal persons exposed phagocytosis phagosome Plate pleural calcification pleural changes Pleural mesothelioma pleural plaques pneumoconiosis population present prevalence production pulmonary carcinoma pulmonary fibrosis radiographic rats reported respiratory reviewed risk samples seen silica silicosis standard studies surface Table talc textile thickening tion tissue tremolite tumor usually various
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