Environmental malignant pleural mesothelloma in Southeast Turkey

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1605-1607

  Tanrikulu, Abdullah C ^a   Senyigit, Abdulrahman ^b   Dagli, Canan E ^c   Babayigit, Cenk ^d   Abakay, Abdurrahman ^b  

^a KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA THICKENING; PLEURODESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY;

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; TURKEY;

EID: 36048951338     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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