Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis

We report a prevalence study of environmental pleural plaques in subjects over 50 years old from the northeastern Corsican village of Murato, built on asbestos surface deposits. The percentage of plaques was 41%, versus 7.5% in the control village of Vezzani. Although surface deposits contain both c...

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Autores principales: Rey, F., Boutin, C., Viallat, J. R., Steinbauer, J., Alessandroni, P., Jutisz, P., Di Giambattista, D., Billon-Galland, M. A., Hereng, P., Dumortier, P., De Vuyst, P.
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Publicado: 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1567285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7882944
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author Rey, F.
Boutin, C.
Viallat, J. R.
Steinbauer, J.
Alessandroni, P.
Jutisz, P.
Di Giambattista, D.
Billon-Galland, M. A.
Hereng, P.
Dumortier, P.
De Vuyst, P.
author_facet Rey, F.
Boutin, C.
Viallat, J. R.
Steinbauer, J.
Alessandroni, P.
Jutisz, P.
Di Giambattista, D.
Billon-Galland, M. A.
Hereng, P.
Dumortier, P.
De Vuyst, P.
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description We report a prevalence study of environmental pleural plaques in subjects over 50 years old from the northeastern Corsican village of Murato, built on asbestos surface deposits. The percentage of plaques was 41%, versus 7.5% in the control village of Vezzani. Although surface deposits contain both chrysotile and tremolite, airborne pollution and asbestos lung burden of exposed inhabitants consist essentially of tremolite as assessed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). However, TEM analysis of the parietal pleura of three animals bred in exposed areas showed a predominance of short fibers of chrysotile. The respective roles of tremolite and chrysotile in inducing pleural plaques in Corsica should thus be considered.—Environ Health Perspect 102(Suppl 5):251–252 (1994)
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spelling pubmed-15672852006-09-19 Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis Rey, F. Boutin, C. Viallat, J. R. Steinbauer, J. Alessandroni, P. Jutisz, P. Di Giambattista, D. Billon-Galland, M. A. Hereng, P. Dumortier, P. De Vuyst, P. Environ Health Perspect Article We report a prevalence study of environmental pleural plaques in subjects over 50 years old from the northeastern Corsican village of Murato, built on asbestos surface deposits. The percentage of plaques was 41%, versus 7.5% in the control village of Vezzani. Although surface deposits contain both chrysotile and tremolite, airborne pollution and asbestos lung burden of exposed inhabitants consist essentially of tremolite as assessed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). However, TEM analysis of the parietal pleura of three animals bred in exposed areas showed a predominance of short fibers of chrysotile. The respective roles of tremolite and chrysotile in inducing pleural plaques in Corsica should thus be considered.—Environ Health Perspect 102(Suppl 5):251–252 (1994) 1994-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1567285/ /pubmed/7882944 Text en
spellingShingle Article
Rey, F.
Boutin, C.
Viallat, J. R.
Steinbauer, J.
Alessandroni, P.
Jutisz, P.
Di Giambattista, D.
Billon-Galland, M. A.
Hereng, P.
Dumortier, P.
De Vuyst, P.
Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis
title Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis
title_full Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis
title_fullStr Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis
title_short Environmental Asbestotic Pleural Plaques in Northeast Corsica: Correlations with Airborne and Pleural Mineralogic Analysis
title_sort environmental asbestotic pleural plaques in northeast corsica: correlations with airborne and pleural mineralogic analysis
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1567285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7882944
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