Malformations in a chornobyl-impacted region

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wertelecki, Wladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Anencephaly; Chernobyl; Chornobyl; Conjoined twin; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Folate; Gender; Ionizing; Malformation; Microcephaly; Microphthalmia; Monozygotic; Neural tube defects; Nutrition; Omphalocele; Radiatio; Sex; Spina bifida; Teratoma; Twin; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; AMNION BAND SYNDROME; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONJOINED TWINS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIORACHISCHISIS; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DOWN SYNDROME; EAR DISEASE; ENCEPHALOCELE; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; EUROPE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; JEJUNUM ATRESIA; JEJUNUM DISEASE; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; LIVE BIRTH; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MICROTHALAMOS; MICROTIA ATRETIC EAR CANAL; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OMPHALOCELE; PENIS DISEASE; PENOSCROTAL HYPOSPADIA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCROTUM DISORDER; SPINA BIFIDA; TERATOMA; TWIN PREGNANCY; UKRAINE; URETHEROHYDRONEPHROSIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; TWINS, CONJOINED; UKRAINE;

EID: 77950572929     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2219     Document Type: Article

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