Non-cancer thyroid diseases among children in the Kaluga and Bayansk regions of the Russian Federation exposed to radiation following the Chernobyl accident

Health Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-22

  Ivanov, Victor K ^a   Chekin, Sergey Yu ^a   Parshin, Vladimir S ^a   Vlasov, Oleg K ^a   Maksioutov, Marat A ^a   Tsyb, Anatoli F ^a   Andreev, Vladimir A ^b   Hoshi, Masaharu ^c   Yamashita, Shunichi ^d   Shibata, Yoshisada ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b Kaluga Health Insurance Foundation   (Russian Federation)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Children; Health effects; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMPARTMENT MODEL; GOITER; HUMAN; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUSSIA; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND;

HUSO DAURICUS;

EID: 19944433535     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000142501.96410.ef     Document Type: Article

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