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ROGER STOLL, M.D.; RICHARD BASS, M.D.; ALFRED A. ANGRIST, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;88(6):831-834.

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HOLLEB and Angrist¹ in 1942 reported two cases of bronchogenic carcinoma in association with pulmonary asbestosis. The first case of carcinoma of the lung in association with pulmonary asbestosis was reported in 1935 by Lynch and Smith.² In that year Gloyne reported two cases and in 1936 another.³ Egbert and Geiger⁴ reported one case in 1936. Nordmann⁵ presented two cases in 1938. One year later Lynch and Smith⁶ added another. Of these, six were of squamouscell carcinoma, one of squamous-cell carcinoma with glandular features, two of oat-cell carcinoma, one of glandular carcinoma, and another of squamous-cell nonkeratinizing carcinoma. The age of the patients ranged from 35 to 71 years, and the duration of exposure, from 19 months to 25 years. All but two had metastases. Freedom from exposure before death varied from four months to 15 years. We have found four additional cases not mentioned in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Departments of Pathology and Medicine (Dr. James R. Reuling, Director), Queens General Hospital.

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