Tumors and other diseases following childhood x-ray treatment for ringworm of the scalp (tinea capitis)

Health Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 404-408

  Shore, Roy E ^a   Moseson, Miriam ^b   Harley, Naomi ^b   Pasternack, Bernard S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dept of Environmental Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Medical radiation; X rays

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; TINEA; TINEA CAPITIS; X IRRADIATION; X RAY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TINEA;

TINEA;

EID: 0042835442     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200310000-00003     Document Type: Article

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