[Mineralogical analysis and occupational records of asbestos, one more example of its value].

Abstract

Navarra has the first and most exhaustive Record of workers exposed to asbestos in Spain. Since 1996, referred by the Prevention Services and transferred to the Servicio Navarro de Salud_Osasunbidea for related pulmonary pathology surveillance upon retirement. There are currently 2,858 workers, 395 women and 2,463 men. Almost no longer occupy positions of risk. For years it has helped to recognize the professional contingency of damages. Paradoxically, in this case, a worker who died of lung cancer with previous interstitial pathology, a negative result of an autopsy, 425ferruginous bodies/gr dry lung tissue was used to deny the professional origin. It is necessary to consider that a positive result confirms past exposure but the negative one should not be evaluated when it was chrysotile, given the low temporal persistence intissues. A reliable work history and, when they exist, the Records must be the main causal argument.