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YOSHIMICHI YAMASOWA, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1953;91(3):310-314.

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THE IMMEDIATE effects of radiation injury upon the hemopoietic system are well known, but few such observations have been made on humans surviving a single massive exposure. Snell, Neel, and Ishibashi¹ initiated such a controlled study in 1947 on a group of subjects exposed to radiation by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

The present report is a hematologic survey of similar nature conducted from March, 1948, to February, 1949, on 824 irradiated subjects, residents of Hiroshima, and 1,145 control subjects, residents of Kure. The studies reported on 304 of the irradiated subjects represent a second examination, as the initial examination was included in the report in 1947.¹ It represents a study of the hematologic effects of radiation 33 to 44 months after the explosion of the atomic bomb.

It is felt that no useful purpose will be served by a review of the literature . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
KYOTO, JAPAN

From the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Department of Hematology, 1948-1951; Resident, Second Division, Internal Medical Service, Medical School, Kyoto University.

Footnotes
Sponsored by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, National Research Council, with funds supplied by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

This paper is presented as one of a series of hematologic studies of the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaski, who were exposed to short-wave radiation of the atomic explosions. It follows in sequence the study by G. LeRoy (Hematology of Atomic Bomb Casualties, Arch. Int. Med. 86:691-710 [Nov.] 1950) and that by Snell, Neel, and Ishibashi. It precedes, however, the paper by J. H. Folley, W. Borges, and T. Yamawaki (Incidence of Leukemia in Survivors of the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, Am. J. Med. 13:311-321 [Sept.] 1952), which deals with the same group after the appearance of leukemia.

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