Asbestos fiber analysis in nine lung cancer cases with high asbestos exposure.

From: Archives of Environmental Health | Date: July 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

We examined the types and sizes of 100 asbestos fibers in lung tissue obtained from to lung-cancer cases (5 autopsy and 4 surgical) with more than [10.sup.4] asbestos bodies per 5 g of wet lung tissue, asbestos bodies in histological sections, and the history of occupational asbestos exposure. Evaluation of asbestos fibers by transmission electron microscopy (2 000 x magnification) revealed that most fibers were longer than 3 [mu]m (96%) and were thicker than 0.1 [mu]m (93%). The analytical conditions we used enabled us to identify 99.7% of all asbestos fibers as being amphibole asbestos. ...

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