Radiation Sickness: Lab Test

1st order laboratory parameters – obligatory laboratory tests.

  • Small blood count
  • Differential blood count
  • Inflammatory parameter – CRP (C-reactive protein)
  • Chromosome counting (for every 1,000 chromosomes, there should be no more than two chromosomes with more than one centromere; in healthy cells, a chromosome has only one centromere!)

Laboratory parameters 2nd order – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, etc. – for differential diagnostic clarification.

  • Bone marrow aspiration