Thyroid-stimulating hormone levels in children from Chernobyl

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1997, Pages 1497-1498

  Quastel, Michael R ^a,b   Goldsmith, John R ^a   Mirkin, Ludmilla ^a   Poljak, Svetlana ^a   Barki, Yehiel ^a   Levy, Jackov ^a   Gorodischer, Rafael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Children; Radiation; Radioiodine; Thyroid; Thyroid stimulating hormone; TSH

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMIGRANT; INFANT; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SERUM; SOIL POLLUTANT; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID NODULE; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; UKRAINE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0031474072     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s61497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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