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the exterminators were ancerned 13 per cent of the body area.

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As far as the roentgenographic changes are

concerned, we found with the exception of anly 10 or 20 per
cent of these people that if changes occurred in the long
bones, in the radius of the tibia or fibula, it was almost

always bilaterally.
and another

So taking one long bone one year

this would minimize the radiation to this and

give us basically clinical data farchanges which may occur
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five, ten or fifteen years hence.

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I have.a chart which I don't know whethe r you cm

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see it cr not.

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you some idea of the distribution of the tumors that

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developed in these radium patients.

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they are all dmmst at the ends of the long bones or

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I just happen to have a chart.

This gives

You will notice that

near the ends.

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The roentgenographic changes occur either at the

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ends or the middle, so by taking an x-ray of the joint and

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probably two thirds of the tibia, this would give us a very

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excellent base line study for our future changes which might

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develop.

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This would be very important fa@

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any autopsy

material or any biopsy material that we might gt when these

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people were having operations that could correlate the

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roentgenographic, radiographic and histopathologic changes.

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