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PATVILOICAL Er OES IN THE SATAL CASE
(T4E LATS ER, AEDOYA'A) OF THE RADIATION SICmNESs
aise BY BIZINI ASHD
(An Intermediate Report)
Iryo [Fedical Treatzent]
Vol 9 Nol, January 1955,
Faces 46-55
,
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Seiichi Chasht
Keisuke Hashinoto
Noriko Fukushima
(Pirst Tokyo National
Hospital, Tokye)
Koji Tashiro
Haruo Susano
Wataru Mord
(Tokyo University)
The autopsy of lir. Kuboyana was perforned on 24 Septerber 1934, betyeen
0610 end 6520 hours at the dissection rcoa of the First Tokyo FKational
Hospital, 5 hours and 14 minutes after death. The autopsy was attended
by Higashiichi Kuriyasa, Vice President of the hotpitel; Dr. Tochiku, Professor ermcritus of Tokyo University; Profeszor Shinizu, of Tokyo Vniversity; Dr. Omura, Chief of the Hospital Section, Sursau of Me“ical Affairs,
Hinistry of Welfare; the group of physicians who treated the p2itient;
Profesror Fiyake of the Fathology Department, Totyo University, and the
uicber3s of his class, Messrs. Saito, Fukushi, Fulhuda, Ohuhira, Gtsura,
etc; [onsen (sic] Chief Pathologist of the 403th Corps, United States
Army; Dr. Rusano, Assistant Professor of Pathology in communicable dis-~eases; Dr. Hitsuda; Oishi Eto, Chief Prthologist of the Koto Premedical
Berartrent, end others interested in this ccse,
CLINICAL DATA
Frior to the autopsy Dr.foyama, Chairnan, Department of Internal
Hedicine and Dr. Kumatori, Chief Physician gave a full one-hour report
on the clinical progréss. A sunsary of this report is given below;
Aikichi Xuboyama: age, 40; sex, male.
Clinical dilacnesis: radiation sickness,
Ur. Euboytrva ves exnosed to radicactive ash noar Sikind on 1 March
1954.
He spent tyo weeks as chief radio operator aboard the ship
following the exposure, arrived at Yakizu Port, Shizuoxa Prefecture, and
was hospitalized at the Internal Medicine Departzent of the First Tokyo
National Fospital on 28 March, At that tine he was treated for radiation
Gerratitis in the neck, the lateral cervical resicn, and the legs. The
‘ite coll couat vas 1,060 in mie-April and 3,000 toward the end of April.
His temperatura roz2a to 33.3 degrees but fell gradually and rerained
Slightly above nori2l until about 7 May. The white cell count tose to
between 5,030 and 6,000 toward the end of Hay but the nurber of nucleated
cells in the rarrow did not inercase such: 9,000 was the minimum and the
count vas generzlyy below 50,609. The red cell count was 3 million when
he was first hospitalized; bleod platelets were bet8een 30,000 and |
40,000. Later, following blood transfusions, the red cell count increased to between 4 nillion and 5.3 million, and the nurber of blood
Platelets rose to about 300,000. A condition of anem'a was noted at
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