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标题：An Operated Case of Lung Cancer with Pleural Plaques: Its Asbestos Bodies, Fiber Analysis and Asbestos Exposure
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作者：Takesuke HIRAOKA ; Akira WATANABE ; Yasuhiro USUMA 等
期刊名称：Industrial Health
印刷版ISSN：0019-8366
电子版ISSN：1880-8026
出版年度：2001
卷号：39
期号：2
页码：194-197
DOI：10.2486/indhealth.39.194
出版社：National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
摘要：This case was a 79-year-old man with pleural plaques, which had been pointed out in the left lung field on chest X-ray six years ago. A new shadow in the right chest appeared in 1999 and was closely examined. Cytological class IV carcinoma was detected in his lung tissue obtained by broncho-fiberscope. Lobectomy of the right upper lobe was performed, and calcified pleural plaques were found on the chest wall. The clinical diagnosis was poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, T1N0M0. In World War II when he was 26 years old, he had worked as a boiler man on a battle cruiser for one year. The amount of asbestos bodies (AB) was 3, 348 per gram dry lung tissue. The cores of AB and asbestos fibers were examined and showed that amosite was the most prevalent and crocidolite, tremolite and chrysotile were present in that order. After leaving the navy, he had worked as a farmer throughout his life, suggesting that he had never contacted asbestos occupationally after being a boiler man. It is strongly suggested that he had been exposed to asbestos during his work as a boiler man and that produced pleural plaques and lung cancer 50 years' later.
关键词：Pleural plaque;Lung cancer;Boilerman;Asbestos body;Fiber analysis