Thyroid cancer in infants and adolescents after Chernobyl

Minerva Endocrinologica

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 381-395

  Reiners, C ^a   Demidchik, Y E ^b   Drozd, V M ^c   Biko, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Republican Center for Thyroid Tumor Research   (Belarus)

^c Belarussian German Fonds Arnica for Follow Up of Childhood Thyroid Tumors   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Neoplasms, radiation induced; Thyroid neoplasms, diagnosis; Thyroid neoplasms, epidemiology; Thyroid neoplasms, surgery

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROTEIN RET; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHENOSPERMIA; BEAM THERAPY; BRAIN METASTASIS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DOSIMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; GASTRITIS; GERMANY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INFANT; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOMA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NECK DISSECTION; NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PREVALENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCREENING; SIALOADENITIS; STOMACH MUCOSA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROIDITIS; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; X RAY; CHILD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THYROID TUMOR; UKRAINE;

ADOLESCENT; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; UKRAINE;

EID: 60849138832     PISSN: 03911977     EISSN: 18271634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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