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An Environmental Reality

John E. Craighead, MD

JAMA. 1984;252(23):3292-3293.

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Readers of the medical literature doubtless find the asbestos-associated diseases a complex topic. The two reports on this subject in a recent issue of THE JOURNAL doubtless contribute to the confusion expressed by many physicians. In the first, Dodson et al¹ record the results of assays of pulmonary tissue from three quite different but relatively small groups of subjects. In contrast to the findings of other investigators,^2-7 these workers failed to detect ferruginous bodies in the lungs of urban residents and rural patients with bronchogenic carcinoma. Several technical considerations and problems of tissue sampling and patient selection could have contributed to the discrepancies between this and earlier reports, but one must ask if the findings are important in the overall context of our understanding of the diseases associated with exposure to asbestos.

It is now widely recognized that most of the ferruginous bodies in the lungs of members . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington.

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