Chernobyl, 10 years after: Health consequences

Epidemiologic Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-204

  Bard, Denis ^a,b   Verger, Pierre ^a   Hubert, Philippe ^a  

^a Inst of Protect and Nuclear Safety

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DOWN SYNDROME; EUROPE; GENETIC DAMAGE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION CATARACT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THYROID CANCER; UKRAINE;

EID: 0031416820     PISSN: 0193936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a017952     Document Type: Review

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