Confirmation of in vivo uranium-in-chest survey by analysis of autopsy specimens

The results of radiochemical analyses of samples of lung, mediastinum, kidney, liver, sternum, rib and vertebrae taken at autopsy of a man who had worked for 22 months with UO2 powder and who subsequently died suddenly from a coronary thrombosis are here compared with the results of a routine in vivo uranium-in-chest count carried out on the same worker only three months before death and after which he carried out no work involving UO2. Methods of Whole Body Counting and radiochemical analysis employed are described. It is concluded that the results from organs taken at autopsy broadly confirm the in vivo chest survey result. (U.K.)