Risk of cancer from diagnostic X-rays

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9406, 2004, Pages 340-341

  Herzog, Peter ^a   Rieger, Christina T ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RADIATION; ATOMIC BOMB; BETA RADIATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0842283178     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15470-6     Document Type: Note

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