Keane A T, Polednak A P
Health Phys. 1983;44 Suppl 1:391-402. doi: 10.1097/00004032-198306001-00037.
An unusually protracted retention of uranium in the chests of certain workers at a uranium processing plant has been reported in the literature. This finding has implications for the protection of current uranium workers and for health-effects studies of early workers. It is shown that the limited data obtained postmortem that have been reported do not reveal a significant unusually protracted retention of uranium in the pulmonary region or in the tracheobronchial lymph nodes. Probable explanations of the disparate findings are discussed. Data are presented on mortality from cancers of lymphatic tissues among males who worked in the period from 1943 to 1947 at the Y-12 Plant, Tennessee-Eastman Corp., Oak Ridge. No significantly increased mortality from these cancers was evident.
文献报道了某铀加工厂部分工人胸部异常长期滞留铀的情况。这一发现对当前铀矿工人的防护以及早期工人的健康影响研究具有启示意义。结果表明，已报道的死后获得的有限数据并未显示肺部区域或气管支气管淋巴结中存在显著的异常长期铀滞留现象。文中讨论了这些不同发现的可能解释。还给出了1943年至1947年期间在田纳西伊士曼公司橡树岭Y - 12工厂工作的男性淋巴组织癌症死亡率数据。这些癌症的死亡率没有明显增加。
