A progress report of the Marshall Islands Nationwide Thyroid Study: An international cooperative scientific study

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 363-375

  Takahashi, Tatsuya ^a   Simon, Steven L ^b   Trott, Klaus R ^c   Fujimori, Keisei ^d   Nakashima, Noriaki ^d   Arisawa, Kokichi ^a   Schoemaker, Minouk J ^e  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of Bulgaria   (United States)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC WARFARE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; HUMAN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID TUMOR;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MICRONESIA; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 0033112387     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.187.363     Document Type: Article

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