Radiation safety protocol for high dose 131I therapy of thyroid carcinoma in patients on hemodialysis for chronic renal failure

Health Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Modarresifar, Homayoun ^a   Almodovar, Samuel ^b   Bass, William B ^c   Ojha, Buddhiwardhan ^b  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

131I; Operational topics; Radiation safety; Shielding

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MONITORING; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; SKIN; THYROID CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846330640     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000252849.68617.50     Document Type: Article

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