Is brain cancer an occupational disease of cardiologists?

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1385-1388

  Finkelstein, Murray M ^a,b,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain cancer; Cardiologists; Fluoroscopy; Radiation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CANCER; CANADA; CARDIOLOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARDIOLOGY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONTARIO; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031797811     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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