Estimate of the time zero lung burden of depleted uranium in Persian Gulf war veterans by the 24-hour urinary excretion and exponential decay analysis

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 600-605

  Durakovic, Asaf ^a   Horan, Patricia ^b   Dietz, Leonard A ^c   Zimmerman, Isaac ^d  

^a Uranium Medical Research Centre   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c Uranium Medical Research Centre   (United States)

^d Uranium Medical Research Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; LEAD; LEAD 208; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FALLOUT; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; INHALATION; IRAN; LUNG BURDEN; LUNG FLUID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTAGENICITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLDIER; URINARY EXCRETION; WAR; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0042575648     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.8.600     Document Type: Article

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