A sentinel health event (occupational) associated with asbestos exposure; [Mullan] See "Mesothelioma, pleural."
Latency/Incubation
"In a population-based study in Sweden, the mean latency was 48 years, and in a study of cases from the Italian Mesothelioma Register, the median latency period was 45 years." [PMID 22937893]
Diagnostic
Biopsy
ICD-9 Code
158
ICD-10 Code
C48
Symptoms/Findings, Job Tasks, and Agents Linked to This Disease
Agents
Hazardous agents that cause the occupational disease: