Graham S J, Heaton R B, Garvin D F, Cotelingam J D
Department of Pathology, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD 20814-5000.
Health Phys. 1992 Jul;63(1):20-6. doi: 10.1097/00004032-199207000-00003.
An autopsy was performed on a 72-y-old Caucasian female who had received a carotid artery injection of thorium dioxide in 1953. The body was dissected in such a manner as to provide for radiobiological evaluation as well as to determine histologically the distribution of Thorotrast in the tissues and its complications. Thorotrast was identified within the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow, and surrounding the right carotid artery (the injection site). The cause of death was gastric hemorrhage complicating pancytopenia secondary to refractory anemia with excess of blasts (myelodysplastic syndrome).
对一名72岁的白种女性进行了尸检，该女性在1953年接受了二氧化钍颈动脉注射。解剖尸体的方式既能进行放射生物学评估，又能从组织学上确定钍造影剂在组织中的分布及其并发症。在肝脏、脾脏、淋巴结、骨髓以及右颈动脉（注射部位）周围发现了钍造影剂。死亡原因是胃出血，这是难治性贫血伴原始细胞增多（骨髓增生异常综合征）继发全血细胞减少的并发症。
