Infant leukemia in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-55

  Ivanov, E P ^a   Tolochko, G V ^a   Shuvaeva, L P ^a   Ivanov, V E ^a   Iaroshevich, R F ^a   Becker, S ^b   Nekolla, E ^b   Kellerer, A M ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Belarus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; BYELARUS; COHORT STUDIES; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POWER PLANTS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0031811390     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050092     Document Type: Article

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