Radiation damage caused by shoe-fitting fluoroscope

Abstract

A case is reported of x-ray dermatitis with ulceration caused by a shoe-fitting fluoroscope. The physicist's examination of the apparatus revealed that during transillumination of the feet a non-screened beam of x rays passed from the front part of the foot platform in the direction of the customer's abdomen. The rise of the radiation dose to the gonads caused by such a defective fluoroscope is much greater than that from even large radiological units. © 1957, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.