Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Mesotheliomas and chrysotile

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Mesotheliomas and chrysotile / Peter Elmes

Paper read at the Workshop on Health Risks Associated with Chrysotile Asbestos, held in Jersey, Channel Islands, 14-17 November 1993

Sumario: Malignant mesotheliomas are, for practical purposes, incurable cancers which occur rarely except when there has been exposure to fine durable respirable fibres. It has not been possible to make a realistic estimate of the frequency of mesotheliomas which are not due to fibre exposure because, in Western countries, everyone is exposed to some fibres and these fibres will be found in the lung at autopsy whether they are the cause of the mesothelioma or not

En: The Annals of occupational hygiene. - Oxford [etc.]. - nº 4, August 1994 ; p. 547-553

1. Higiene industrial . 2. Contaminantes biológicos . 3. Serpentina fibrosa . 4. Enfermedades profesionales . 5. Enfermedades pulmonares . 6. Epidemiología . 7. Mesotelioma . I. Title. II. Título: The Annals of occupational hygiene.