Blood, 1955, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 312-324.
© 1955 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
Refractory Anemia Occurring in Survivors of the Atomic
Bombing in Nagasaki, Japan
ROBERT D. LANGE 1,
STANLEY W. WRIGHT 1,
MASANOBU TOMONAGA 1,
HIROTAMI KURASAKI 1,
SHIGERU MATSUOKE 1, and
HARUJI MATSUNAGA 1
1 laboratories of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima, Japan.
In this paper the case histories of six Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors who
developed refractory anemia are presented. Four of these individuals received
undoubted radiation injury. The fact that refractory anemia may occur as a late
manifestation of exposure to atomic radiation is pointed out.
Submitted on July 1, 1953
Accepted on August 15, 1954