Medical response to radiation incidents and radionuclear threats

British Medical Journal

Volumn 328, Issue 7439, 2004, Pages 568-572

  Turai, István ^a   Veress, Katalin ^b   Günalp, Bengül ^c   Souchkevitch, Gennadi ^d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d INSTITUTE OF GENERAL PATHOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CELL COUNT; DEPLETION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LATENT PERIOD; LETHALITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SKIN INJURY; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE; TERRORISM; THREAT;

EID: 1542373521     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.568     Document Type: Review

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