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ASBESTOS BODIES AND PLEURAL PLAQUES IN HUMAN LUNGS AT NECROPSY
Author(s) -
Hägerstrand I.,
Seifert B.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1973.tb00492.x
Subject(s) - asbestos , medicine , lung , pathology , asbestosis , materials science , metallurgy
Ninety‐seven, largely consecutive, subjects (59 men and 38 women) in Malmo, a coast town of 250.000 inhabitants in south Sweden, were examined post mortem for pleural plaques and asbestos bodies of the lungs. Two sections and one smear from each lung were examined. Asbestos bodies were found in 47 (32 men and 15 women) and pleural plaques in 29 (26 men and 3 women). Sixteen out of the 32 men with asbestos bodies had also pleural plaques. In 7 subjects, all men, more than 20 asbestos bodies were found; four of these had pleural plaques.