Unanswered questions: The legacy of atomic veterans

Health Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-163

  Hansen, Deborah ^a,c   Schriner, Cheryl ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b Lourdes College   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic bomb survivors; Epidemiology; Genetic effects, radiation; Health effects

Indexed keywords

2,4,5 TRICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID;

ANEUPLOIDY; ATOMIC BOMB; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER MORTALITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATHER; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; JAPAN; LAW; LEUKEMIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SOLDIER; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ABNORMALITIES, RADIATION-INDUCED; ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR WARFARE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 22244487937     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000163441.61368.68     Document Type: Review

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