Asbestos-Related Disease from Household Exposure
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Respiration
- Vol. 39 (4), 229-240
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000194221
Abstract
The importance of nonoccupational asbestos exposure has been emphasized recently. To illustrate this problem, we report 4 persons with asbestos-related disease from household exposure. There were 2 wives of asbestos workers, who cleaned their husbands’ work clothes. One developed a mesothelioma and the other plaques, calcification, benign asbestos pleural effusion and subpleural parenchymal fibrosis. 2 men were exposed as children while playing in a cellar room which was also used for their father’s muffler repair business. At ages 27 and 33, they had pleural and diaphragmatic calcificationsKeywords
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