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Implantation and Monitoring by PET/CT of an Orthotopic Model of Human Pleural Mesothelioma in Athymic Mice
Published on: December 21, 2019
[Asbestos-related diseases in relatives of asbestos exposed workers]
1U.O. Medicina del Lavoro Ospedaliera, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari, P.zza Giulio Cesare, 11 - 70124- Bari. vitoluisi@tin.it
Abstract:
Standard asbestos diagnostic protocol was applied to eleven relatives of asbestos exposure ex-workers of a cement factory in Bari. Nine wives and seventeen sons were involved as volunteers in this evaluation. In this group two pleura malignant mesotheliomas (not dose-dependent) two asbestosis and fifteen pleura plaques (dose-dependent) were detected. This situation shows high level of asbestos contamination at home. For all the test patients the contamination most probably occurred because workers carried asbestos substances home from work on their clothes.
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