Non-occupational asbestos related chest diseases in a small Anatolian village.
报告了土耳其安纳托利亚一个小村庄中非职业性接触石棉导致的胸膜间皮瘤、石棉肺等病例,对研究环境石棉暴露与疾病关系的学者有参考价值。
Non-occupational endemic pleural asbestosis and mesothelioma have been reported in some Anatolian villages12 and tremolite fibres have been found in the lung tissue from some of these patients. Between 1984 and 1987 we collected four cases with malignant pleural mesothelioma and one each of asbestosis, gastric carcinoma, and lymphoma from a small Central Anatolian village with a population of 425.