Evaluation of the radiation exposures of chernobyl "liquidators": Exploratory studies of a sample of immigrants to Israel

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-59

  Goldsmith, John R ^a   Merkin, Ludmila ^a   Quastel, Michael R ^a   Poljak, Svetlana ^a   Kordysh, Ella A ^a   Wishkerman, Vered ^a   Emerit, Ingrid ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Acute radiation illness; Clastogenic test; Glycophorin A test; Histories of exposure; Mutation; Occupational epidemiology; Occupational radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002244588     PISSN: 10773525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/oeh.1997.3.1.51     Document Type: Review

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