Cataracts in retired actinide-exposed radiation workers

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 123-125

  Jacobson, Baruch S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDE; PLUTONIUM; RADON; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CATARACTOGENESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; IONIZING RADIATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PENSIONER; RADIATION CATARACT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACTINOID SERIES ELEMENTS; AGED; BODY BURDEN; CATARACT; EYE; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RETIREMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 17844384001     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch427     Document Type: Article

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