title: [Wounds and burns of the skin polluted by alpha irradiation in personnel of radiochemistry enterprises].
abstract: Records of pollution by plutonium and americium 241 of skin wounds and burns in the personnel of the Mayak plant in 1948-1992 are analyzed. Traumas occurred in 286 (7.2%) workers, mechanical injuries were 84.1% of these. A high incidence of wound contamination was recorded in the workers engaged in mechanical processing of plutonium. Altogether 34.1% of injuries had alpha-radiators in residual amounts after debridement, though their levels did not surpass the minimal levels of radionuclide detection.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Bazhin
authors.forename: V F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Khokhriakov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Shevkunov
mesh_terms: D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive; D000512:Alpha Particles; D000576:Americium; D002056:Burns / Q000209:etiology*; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology*; D011005:Plutonium; D011832:Radiation Injuries; D011854:Radiochemistry; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries*
chemical_list: D011005:Plutonium; D000576:Americium
vernacular_title: Rany i ozhogi kozhi, zagriaznennye alfa-izluchateliami, u personala radiokhimicheskogo predpriiatiia.