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Asbestos Mining

An occupation that involves the extraction of asbestos from naturally-occurring silicate deposits. Asbestos miners were shown to have an increased… 
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Review
2011
Review
2011
Mesothelioma and analysis of tissue fiber content.
The strong relationship between mesothelioma and asbestos exposure is well established. The analysis of lung asbestos burden by… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
Relative leucopenia in the peripheral blood of asbestos miners: a epidemiologic analysis.
The study examines differential leucocyte counts in blood of asbestos miners and quarriers identified during the course of a… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Pleural Plaques in Asbestos-exposed Workers: Reproducibility of a New High-resolution CT Visual Semiquantitative Measurement Method
Objective To assess the reproducibility of a new high-resolution computed tomography (CT) visual semiquantitative method for… 
2005
2005
Asbestos problem in India.
2003
2003
Justice for Asbestos Victims and the Politics of Compensation: The French Experience
Abstract This paper presents the history of asbestos mining and manufacture in France, the strategies of the multinational… 
2000
2000
Risk of mesothelioma from exposure to crocidolite asbestos: a 1995 update of a South African mortality study
OBJECTIVE To find the risk of developing mesothelioma in a cohort born in 1916–36 in Prieska, Northern Cape Province, South… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Environmental asbestos exposure and mesothelioma
Epidemiologic studies of mesothelioma have focused primarily on occupational exposures to asbestos. Nonoccupational exposure to… 
1981
1981
Magnetic lung measurements of relation to occupational exposure in asbestos miners and millers of Quebec.
1980
1980
Asbestos-related radiological changes in residents of South African amphibole asbestos mining fields and the fibre counts to which they may have been exposed.
: Radiological abnormalities consistent with the results of inhalation of asbestos dust were found in nonoccupationally… 
1967
1967
Exposure to metals in the manufacture of asbestos textile products.
Abstract Asbestos textile workers processing chrysotile were exposed, in the past, to significant airborne levels of nickel… 
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