Results of radioactive iodine treatment in children from Belarus with advanced stages of thyroid cancer after the Chernobyl accident

International Congress Series

Volumn 1234, Issue C, 2002, Pages 205-214

  Reiners, Christoph ^a   Biko, Johannes ^a   Demidchik, Evgueni P ^b   Demidchik, Yuri E ^b   Drozd, Valentina M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Centre for Thyroid Tumours   (Belarus)

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

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Childhood thyroid cancer; Radioiodine treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041405342     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00610-0     Document Type: Article

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