Testicular carcinoma in U.S. Air Force aviators: A case-control study

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 846-850

  Yamane, Grover K ^a   Johnson, Robert ^b  

^a USAF   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aviators; Epidemiology; Etiology; Germ cell tumor; Military; Testicular carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR FORCE; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; ETHNOLOGY; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEMINOMA; TERATOCARCINOMA; TESTIS CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042267869     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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