Health investigations of depleted uranium clean-up workers

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 366-370

  Milacic, Snezana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Clean up workers; Decontamination; Depleted uranium

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; METHODOLOGY; MONTENEGRO (REPUBLIC); OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SOIL POLLUTANT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; URINE; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; COHORT STUDIES; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MONTENEGRO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; URANIUM; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 52949130967     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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