Prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies in children and adolescents from Belarus exposed to the Chernobyl radioactive fallout

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Volumn 352, Issue 9130, 1998, Pages 763-766

  Pacini, Fario ^a,c   Vorontsova, Tatiana ^a   Molinaro, Leonora ^a   Kuchinskaya, Hvira ^a   Agate, Laura ^b   Shavmva, Mena ^b   Astachova, Larisa ^b   Chiovato, Luca ^a   Piochera, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Research Clinical Institute of Radiation Medicine and Endocrinology   (Belarus)

^c Thyroid Cancer Center   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; FALLOUT; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032487021     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11397-6     Document Type: Article

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