Asbestos burden in lungs of non-occupationally exposed women from Broni (Pavia, Italy): a postmortem SEM-EDS study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Italy the incidence of malignant mesothelioma (MM) among women is remarkably high, due to the several contexts in which women had been exposed to asbestos. However, very few studies in literature focus on the inorganic lung content in women. The aim of this retrospective, observational study is to investigate the asbestos lung burden, in terms of concentration, dimensions and type of asbestos, in 42 women who died from MM and had been non-occupationally exposed to asbestos during the activity of the asbestos-cement plant located in Broni (Pavia, Northern Italy) where mainly chrysotile, crocidolite and amosite were used.

Methods

Lung samples taken during forensic autopsies have been digested using sodium hypochlorite and filtered through a cellulose-ester membra

SUBMITTER: Visona SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10797346 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature