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fa tients who was working as a, luminous dial worker at 15

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had areas of increased intensity around epiphyseal areas
of the long bones.

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that we were not too sure whether these developed years
later or developed with deposition.

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Gross audio-radiographs were made, and they did havp

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a concentration of radium in the epiphyseal area.

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trouble with the radium data is that we don't have a roentgen

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grosser so that we can tell these tievelopments of the roentgepnographic lesions, we see in the people 20 or 30 years from

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now.

It would seem that these lesions develop years later.

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As I say, in this one case which ingested radio-

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active materials at 15 died at 40, and she had these areas

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of concentration in the epiphyseal areas.

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studies, it would seem that radium is eliminated from the

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more accessible parts of the skeleton.

DR. BUGHER:

From other

Does anybody else have a different

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thought in regard to the skeletal prognosis here with this

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amount of material?

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I think the skin prognosis is one which has a

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considerable uncertainty as well, and also equally perhaps

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important.

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I would like to ask Dr. Dunhan to serve as Chairman fora

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while until I get back.

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side from the skin.

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