INTUSSUSCEPTION AS A COMPLICATION OF RADIATION SICKNESS (in Russian)
The digestive tract is highly sensitive to ionizing radiation, and the changes taking place in it have a promi nent place in the clinical picture of the radiation sickness. The secreting function of the digestive glands is upset, as well as the processes of digestion and absorption. The intestinal wall becomes extremely permeable. Motor function disorders are accompanied by peristaltic contractions, tenesmus. This finds its clinical expression in nausea, vomiting, colicky pains, and diarrhea Marked disorders of the motor function can lead to intussusception, which complicates considerably the subsequent evolution of the radiation sickness. Three cases of thususception of the thin and lange bowels in dogs who had received a total x-ray dose of 500 r are descrtbed. Acute radiation sickness in these animals ran a more severe and rapid course than in the controls. All cases ended in death on the 6 to lOth day after irrakiation with symptoms of intestinal obstruction. Morphological changes in the dead animals were typical of acute radiation sickness and differed from the irrakiated control cases by more marked dystrophic changes In the liver, kidneys, and heart. (tr-auth)
- Research Organization:
- Inst. of Scientific Research in Roentgenology and Radiology
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-008602
- OSTI ID:
- 4294315
- Journal Information:
- Vestnik Rentgenol. i Radiol., Vol. Vol: 32, No. 5; Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- Russian
Similar Records
Effect of fluoride on the intestinal epithelial cell brush border membrane
THERAPY OF INTESTINAL SYMPTOMS IN THE FIELD OF RADIATION SICKNESS