An analysis of a puncture wound case with medical intervention

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 105, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 509-512

  Bailey, B R ^a   Eckerman, K F ^b   Townsend, L W ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241; CHELATING AGENT; PENTETATE CALCIUM; PENTETATE ZINC; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHELATION THERAPY; DRUG CLEARANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEBULIZER; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SIMULATION; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0141787098     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006293     Document Type: Article

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