asbestos body

A yellow-brown structure seen by light microscopy in patients with asbestosis which consists of an asbestos fibre encased in a melange of iron and calcium salts and protein.
Pathogenesis Asbestos bodies result from a repeating cycle of “defence” by macrophages, which engulf asbestos fibres in an attempt to phagocytose, which fails, given the fibres’ insoluble nature.

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Based on their fibrosis score, 7 of 82 (9%) DPF cases fell within the 95% prediction interval of asbestosis based on asbestos body counts by light microscopy (Figure 1).

Asbestos fiber content of lungs with diffuse interstitial fibrosis: an analytical scanning electron microscopic analysis of 249 cases

In our collective from 2015 which totaled 1038 cases that were subjected to the lung dust analysis, 609 patients (58.7%) had asbestos body counts of less than 23/g of wet lung tissue; thus no increased asbestos burden could be established as against the non-exposed population and no asbestosis was present.

HISTOLOGICAL FINDINGS AND LUNG DUST ANALYSIS AS THE BASIS FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE COMPENSATION IN ASBESTOS-RELATED LUNG CANCER IN GERMANY

Asbestos body concentrations in human lung: predictions from asbestos body counts in tissue sections using a mathematical model.

Pathology of asbestosis--an update of the diagnostic criteria: report of the Asbestosis Committee of the College of American Pathologists and Pulmonary Pathology Society

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