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Table 1 Information regarding asbestos fibres and AFBs: external lengths, widths and type of the AFB fibres and bodies, and internal diameters of the fibres and bodies.

From: An investigation of the internal morphology of asbestos ferruginous bodies: constraining their role in the onset of malignant mesothelioma

Patient

AFB

Fibre

Body

Fibre-1 Diameter

Fibre-2 Diameter

Fibre-3 Diameter

Body Diameter

  

length

width

Type

length

width

long

short

long

short

long

short

long

short

N1

1

26.67

0.37

Amosite

20.88

5.21 ± 1.29

0.86

0.32

-

-

-

-

6.22

6.22

 

2

29.39

1.07

Amosite

24.59

10.00

0.97

0.56

-

-

-

-

8.43

7.39

 

3

51.80

0.83

Amosite

16.94

6.73 ± 2.05

0.80

0.54

0.49

0.33

-

-

8.05

-

 

4

71.10

1.71

Amosite

42.55

9.03

1.62

1.10

0.48

0.28

-

-

7.72

-

 

Average

44.74 ± 20.87

1.00 ± 0.56

 

26.24 ± 11.31

7.74 ± 2.18

1.06 ± 0.38

0.63 ± 0.33

0.49 ± 0.01

0.31 ± 0.04

-

-

7.61 ± 0.97

6.81 ± 0.83

N2

1

15.89

0.42

Crocidolite

8.59

5.86

0.63

0.42

-

-

-

-

5.45

4.93

 

2

19.90

0.42

Crocidolite

17.53

2.24 ± 0.79

0.42

0.35

-

-

-

-

3.11

3.09

 

3

22.19

0.40

Amosite

6.40

3.51 ± 1.00

0.45

0.33

-

-

-

-

4.52

3.98

 

4

20.28

0.39

Crocidolite

16.92

5.22 ± 0.4

0.49

0.13

-

-

-

-

5.54

5.21

 

Average

19.57 ± 2.65

0.41 ± 0.02

 

12.36 ± 5.69

4.21 ± 1.65

0.50 ± 0.09

0.31 ± 0.12

-

-

-

-

4.66 ± 1.13

4.30 ± 0.96

S1

1

24.87

0.70

Amosite

18.30

2.81

0.92

0.32

-

-

-

-

2.56

2.01

 

2

7.01

0.14

-

6.54

2.18 ± 1.7

0.27

0.06

-

-

-

-

3.29

3.20

 

3

48.29

0.89

Amosite

20.22

3.69

0.88

0.26

-

-

-

-

4.51

3.00

 

4

21.18

1.02

Amosite

5.32

4.15 ± 0.16

1.00

0.26

-

-

-

-

3.94

3.75

 

Average

25.34 ± 17.13

0.69 ± 0.39

 

12.6 ± 7.75

3.21 ± 0.88

0.77 ± 0.34

0.22 ± 0.11

-

-

-

-

3.58 ± 0.84

2.99 ± 0.73

S2

1

9.92

0.32

Crocidolite

9.55

2.78

0.32

0.19

-

-

-

-

2.29

2.12

 

2

22.91

0.19

-

10.57

2.96

-

-

-

-

-

-

2.69

2.59

 

3

16.41

0.24

Crocidolite

13.25

2.10 ± 0.35

0.26

0.06

0.18

0.08

0.19

0.07

2.07

1.61

 

Average

16.41 ± 6.5

0.25 ± 0.07

 

11.12 ± 1.91

2.61 ± 0.45

0.29 ± 0.04

0.13 ± 0.09

    

2.35 ± 0.31

2.11 ± 0.49