Major radiodiagnostic imaging in pregnancy and the risk of childhood malignancy: A population-based cohort study in Ontario

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Ray, Joel G ^a,b   Schull, Michael J ^b   Urquia, Marcelo L ^b   You, John J ^b,c   Guttmann, Astrid ^b,d   Vermeulen, Marian J ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANADA; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN POPULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ONTARIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957884449     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000337     Document Type: Article

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