Detection of depleted uranium in urine of veterans from the 1991 Gulf War

Health Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 12-18

  Gwiazda, R H ^a   Squibb, K ^b   McDiarmid, M ^b   Smith, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose assessment; Spectrometry, mass; Uranium, depleted; Weapons

Indexed keywords

URANIUM; URANIUM 235;

ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; INGESTION; INHALATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SOLDIER; URINALYSIS; WAR; WOUND;

FIREARMS; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE EAST; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URANIUM; VETERANS; WAR; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0346217034     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200401000-00004     Document Type: Article

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