Journal Title
Title of Journal: JAMA
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Publisher
American Medical Association
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Authors: Mark Germine
Publish Date: 1988/07/15
Volume: 260, Issue: 3, Pages: 340-340
Abstract
In Reply— Langer and others have two criticisms of my letter regarding the possible association of fibrous tremolite with endemic pleural calcification and mesothelioma in Greece They point out that I did not cite their article in which the hypothesis regarding the tremolite content of Metsovo whitewash was originally presented I did however cite two articles by the same group of workers including a more recent article than the one to which they referSecond and much more seriously they state that I have made an error in my use of the terms asbestiform and nonasbestiform which they have tried to correct in the past12 obviously without success Nowhere in my most recent letter however did I refer to the highly elongate fibers exhibiting inclined extinction which Langer and others call cleavage fragments as being asbestiform although I consider them to be so My use of this term in
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