Treatment of actinide exposures: A review of Ca-DTPA injections inside CEA-COGEMA plants

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 435-439

  Grappin, Louise ^a   Berard, Philippe ^a   Menetrier, Florence ^a   Carbone, Lise ^a   Courtay, Catherine ^b   Castagnet, Xavier ^c   Le Goff, Jean Pierre ^a   Neron, Marie Odile ^a   Piechowski, Jean ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b DSV/CARMIN ^*  (France)

^c Service de Protection Radiologique des Armees   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDE; AMERICIUM; PENTETATE CALCIUM; PLUTONIUM; CHELATING AGENT; PENTETIC ACID; RADIOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

CHELATION THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DOSIMETRY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EARLY INTERVENTION; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN ALLERGY; TOXIC INHALATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ACTINOID SERIES ELEMENTS; BODY BURDEN; CHELATING AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PENTETIC ACID; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 49649100672     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm296     Document Type: Review

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