Re: Testing for Beryllium

From:Marek Malecki <mmm@ucsd.edu>

Robert,
Energy filtering transmission electron microscopy will allow you to detect 
and map Be directly in the tissue.
Marek.







At 15:16 2000-10-27 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone know who does mass spectometry.... or spectrometric photo
>analysis... or any qual/quant testing for this metal in tissues?   The
>differential in this case is sarcoid vs. chronic berylliosis?   pt. has
>history of "multiple" exposures to heavy metals.
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Lott, HTL(ASCP)
>Baptist Health System
>Birmingham, AL
>

Marek Malecki, M.D., Ph.D.
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