burns

["Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

I just heard in a meeting that if you have thermal burns over more than

50% of your body, you can have severe marrow depression at doses as low

as 1 Gy. I don't have a reference or anything better than "I heard it at

a meeting". Does anyone have confirmation of this? If true, does anyone

know a mechanism that can explained the apparently heightened

radiosensitivity? Thanks.





Mike



Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

Vanderbilt University 

1161 21st Avenue South

Nashville, TN 37232-2675 

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