Thyroid examination in highly radiation-exposed workers after the Chernobyl accident

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 625-630

  Boehm, Bernhard O ^a,e   Steinert, Marianna ^a   Dietrich, Johannes W ^a   Peter, Ralf U ^b   Belyi, David ^c   Wagemaker, Gerald ^d   Rosinger, Silke ^a   Friedner, Theodor M ^a   Weiss, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHRKRANKENHAUS ULM   (Germany)

^c Res Center of Radiation Medicine   (Ukraine)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; AUTOANTIBODY; IODINE; THYROID HORMONE;

ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION; THYROIDITIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BETA RADIATION; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID GLAND;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; BETA RAYS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIATION INJURIES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 64549137115     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-08-0492     Document Type: Article

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