Electrical power lines and childhood leukemia: A study from Greece

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 345-348

  Petridou, Eleni ^a,b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,b   Kravaritis, Athanasios ^c   Pourtsidis, Apostolos ^d   Dessypris, Nick ^a   Skalkidis, Yannis ^a   Kogevinas, Manolis ^e   Kalmanti, Maria ^f   Koliouskas, Dimitrios ^g   Kosmidis, Helen ^d   Panagiotou, John P ^h   Piperopoulou, Fani ⁱ   Tzortzatou, Fotini ^a   Kalapothaki, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Public Power Corporation   (Greece)

^d P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^g Ippocrateion General Hospital   (Greece)

^h AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

ⁱ ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; GREECE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC FIELD; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 0030670098     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19971104)73:3<345::aid-ijc7>3.0.co;2-#     Document Type: Article

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