Biological monitoring for depleted uranium exposure in U.S. Veterans

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 953-956

  Dorsey, Carrie D ^a,b   Engelhardt, Susan M ^b   Squibb, Katherine S ^a,b,c   McDiarmid, Melissa A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Biomonitoring; Depleted uranium; Exposure; Isotopic analysis

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; VETERAN; WAR;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GULF WAR; HUMANS; UNITED STATES; URANIUM; VETERANS;

EID: 67449164881     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800413     Document Type: Article

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