Identification of health risks in workers staying and working on the terrains contaminated with depleted uranium

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-222

  Milacic, Snezana ^a   Simic, Jadranko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b South East Europe Consultants SEEC   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Chromosome aberrations; Depleted uranium; Health risks

Indexed keywords

BONE; CHROMOSOMES; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; IONIZING RADIATION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PHOSPHATASES; TESTING; URANIUM;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY; CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEPLETED URANIUM; EXPOSED TO; LEUCOCYTES; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; POISSON REGRESSION; WORKERS';

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

URANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ADULT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; URANIUM;

EID: 70349232485     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: 13499157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.08131     Document Type: Article

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