Dosimetry and thyroid cancer: The individual dosage of radioiodine

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Lassmann, Michael ^a   Reiners, Christoph ^a   Luster, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; NAUSEA; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SIALOADENITIS; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; THYROID TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956223987     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: 14796821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/ERC-10-0071     Document Type: Review

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