Asbestosis and Tumors of the Pleura (Translation)

This article by H. C. M. van der Schoot reported three cases the author presented as asbestosis combined with a pleural tumor. The author described all three as long-employed insulators, though Patient C's length of work was unknown. Their work included removing old conductors in poorly ventilated, very dusty rooms with a high concentration of asbestos fibers. Patient A, aged 67, had worked with asbestos for 41 years. At autopsy a large tumor surrounded his right lung and had grown through the diaphragm. It had the characteristics of a mesothelioma, in all probability starting from the pleura. Patient B, aged 67, had worked with asbestos for 13 years. His autopsy showed a tumor enclosing the left lower lobe and rather serious asbestosis. Patient C, aged 57, had a fibrosarcoma around the lower and middle lobes of the right lung that had grown through the diaphragm into the liver. His case account reported only a moderate number of asbestos bodies, without describing lung fibrosis or where the tumor started. The author proposed extending the link between asbestosis and lung carcinoma to pleural tumors.

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