Teratogen update: Iodine deficiency, a community teratogen

Teratology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 389-405

  Hollowell Jr , Joseph G ^a   Hannon, W Harry ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; IODINE; IODINE DERIVATIVE; LIOTHYRONINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROXINE;

AUDIOLOGY; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; GOITER; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IODINATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; FEMALE; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODINE; MALE; PREGNANCY; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0030866960     PISSN: 00403709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9926(199706)55:6<389::AID-TERA6>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Review

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