Thyroid lesions in children and adolescents after the Chernobyl disaster: Implications for the study of radiation tumorigenesis

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-14

  Nikiforov, Yuri ^a   Gnepp, Douglas R ^b   Fagin, James A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POWER PLANTS; PREVALENCE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0030060619     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.1.9     Document Type: Article

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