Pleural mesothelioma in a woman whose documented past exposure to asbestos was from smoking asbestos-containing filtered cigarettes: The comparative value of analytical transmission electron microscopic analysis of lung and lymph-node tissue

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 679-684

  Dodson, Ronald ^a   Hammar, Samuel ^b  

^a Dodson Environmental Consulting Inc   (United States)

^b Diagnostic Specialties Laboratory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CROCIDOLITE; GANCICLOVIR;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FILTER; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGED; ASBESTOS, CROCIDOLITE; BODY BURDEN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MESOTHELIOMA; MICROSCOPY, ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; SMOKING;

EID: 33746813629     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370600743068     Document Type: Article

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