Lung asbestos fiber burden analysis: effects of the counting rules for legal medicine evaluations.
Anna Benedetta SomiglianaPietro Gino BarbieriAlessandro CavalloRoberto ColomboDario ConsonniDario MirabelliPublished in: Inhalation toxicology (2023)
On average we estimated that 1 amphibole fiber with length ≥5 µm corresponds to ∼8 amphibole fibers with length ≥1 µm in the lung. The values of the Helsinki criteria should be updated taking this into account.
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