The Elbmarsch leukemia cluster: Are there conceptual limitations in controlling immission from nuclear establishments in Germany?

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 589-600

  Schmitz Feuerhake, I ^a   Dieckmann, H ^b   Hoffmann, W ^c   Lengfelder, E ^d   Pflugbeil, S ^b   Stevenson, A F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b German Society for Radiation Protection   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; EMISSION; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; FISSION NEUTRON; GAMMA RADIATION; GERMANY; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ALPHA PARTICLES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GAMMA RAYS; GERMANY; HUMANS; IODINE; LEUKEMIA; MALE; POWER PLANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GEESTHACHT; GERMANY; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN; WORLD;

EID: 27544460349     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-004-0239-1     Document Type: Article

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