title: Environmental exposure to tremolite asbestos: pleural mesothelioma in two Turkish workers in Germany.
abstract: This report concerns two Turkish immigrant workers, aged 50 and 59, who developed histologically confirmed diffuse malignant mesothelioma in the absence of obvious occupational exposure to asbestos in Germany. Both patients had spent their childhood in central Anatolia, Turkey, where the presence of tremolite asbestos in the environment has been described. In both patients, the lung-dust burden showed a high concentration of amphibole fibers (186 x 10(6) resp. 59 x 10(6) per gram dry tissue), mainly classified as actionolite/tremolite fibers in scanning transmission electron microscopy. In both patients, the disease was thus attributed to early environmental exposure to tremolite asbestos.
authors.affiliation: Institute und Poliklinik für Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin der Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rödelsperger
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brückel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kayser
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Woitowitz
mesh_terms: D017636:Asbestos, Amphibole / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology