A study of mortality and morbidity among persons occupationally exposed to ≥50 mSv in a year: Phase i, mortality through 1984

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 334-343

  Fry, Shirley A ^a   Dupree, E A ^a   Sipe, A H ^a   Seiler, D L ^a   Wallace, P W ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029972579     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1996.10389333     Document Type: Article

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