Monday, September 14, 2009

Asbestos-Associated Diseases

Respiratory diseases:

Parenchymal asbestosis

- Asbestos-related pleural abnormalities

- Lung carcinoma

- Pleural mesothelioma

Nonrespiratory diseases:

- Peritoneal mesothelioma

- Possibly, other extrathoracic cancers

- Rarely, cor pulmonale or constrictive pericarditis

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