Thyroid ultrasound abnormalities in persons exposed during childhood to131I from the Hanford Nuclear Site

Thyroid

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 604-613

  Kopecky, Kenneth J ^a,b   Onstad, Lynn ^b   Hamilton, Thomas E ^b,c   Davis, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INFANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID NODULE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; WASHINGTON;

EID: 22244440819     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2005.15.604     Document Type: Article

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