Chemical and histological post-mortem studies on a workman exposed for many years to cadmium oxide fume.

Post-mortem examinations of workers who died of cadmium poisoning after exposure to cadmium oxide fume have been reported by Baader (1951), Lane and Campbell (1954), and Bonnell (1955). Friberg (1950) and Friberg and Nystr6m (1952) reported similar examinations of workmen subjected to cadmium oxide dust. As part of a study of cadmium intoxication it was important to establish the distribution of absorbed cadmium in various tissues both in persons exposed to cadmium and in others not in contact with this hazard, and to discover the structural response of the tissues to cadmium deposition. One fatal case is described below.