Thyroid cancer after external or internal ionizing irradiation

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Foteini, Papadopoulou ^a   Elias, Efthimiou ^a  

^a PANAGIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Nuclear accidents; Papillary carcinoma; Radiation; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; POTASSIUM IODIDE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; STIMULATORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; THYROXINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ATOMIC BOMB; BELARUS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; DISTANT METASTASIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GENE MUTATION; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; NAUSEA; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT SURVEY; THYMUS DISEASE; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TINEA CAPITIS; TONSIL DISEASE; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT CHILDREN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72249118811     PISSN: 11081430     EISSN: 17905427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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