Medical management principles for radiation accidents

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-222

  Meineke, Viktor ^a   Van Beuningen, Dirk ^a   Sohns, Torsten ^b   Fliedner, Theodor M ^c  

^a Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology   (Germany)

^b Sanitatsakademie der Bundeswehr   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; RADON; RADON 226; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSULTATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; JAPAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY SERVICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN GRAFT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037338911     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.3.219     Document Type: Article

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