Pathology of Asbestos Associated Diseases, First Edition (1992)

The first edition (1992) of a textbook by pathologists Victor L. Roggli, S. Donald Greenberg and Philip C. Pratt, with contributing authors, describing the pathologic abnormalities associated with asbestos exposure. Its thirteen chapters cover asbestos mineralogy, occupational and environmental exposure, asbestos bodies, asbestosis, mesothelioma, benign pleural disease, lung carcinoma, other neoplasia, cytopathology, experimental models and tissue fiber analysis, which the preface says includes previously unpublished data from the authors' laboratories. Two closing chapters give plaintiff's and defendant's attorneys' perspectives on the medicolegal aspects of asbestos-related diseases.