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Mesothelioma mortality surveillance and asbestos exposure tracking in Italy

Author(s) -

Lucia Fazzo,

Giada Minelli,

Marco De Santis,

Caterina Bruno,

Amerigo Zona,

Alessandro Marinaccio,

Susanna Conti,

Roberta Pirastu,

Pietro Comba

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

annali dell istituto superiore di sanità

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.302

H-Index - 42

eISSN - 2384-8553

pISSN - 0021-2571

DOI - 10.4415/ann_12_03_11

Subject(s) - asbestos , mesothelioma , geography , standardized mortality ratio , mortality rate , relative risk , demography , population , environmental health , medicine , pathology , surgery , confidence interval , materials science , metallurgy , sociology

Spatial distribution of mortality from pleural mesothelioma (which in the ICD-10 Revision has a specific code: C45.0) in Italy for the period 2003-2009 is described. Previous mortality studies at national level employed the topographic code "Malignant neoplasms of pleura", because of unavailability of a specific code in ICD-9 Revision for pleural mesothelioma.

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