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[Liver tumors after exposure to vinyl chloride monomers: new cases of liver angiosarcoma]
1Klinika za unutarnje bolesti Medicinskog fakulteta u Zagrebu.
Lijecnicki Vjesnik
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
Two workers exposed to elevated concentrations of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) in a plastic industry plant are presented. They both died of hepatic tumors: one of liver angiosarcoma after ten or more years of exposition to about 500 ppm VCM. On the basis of former studies the authors predict future incidence of such malignant tumors at a rate of about one per year in the same plant, notwithstanding the protective measures, because of "cumulative" VCM concentration in the working medium.