Epidemiological studies of cataract risk at low to moderate radiation doses: (Not) seeing is believing

Radiation Research

Volumn 174, Issue 6 B, 2010, Pages 889-894

  Shore, Roy E ^a   Neriishi, Kazuo ^a   Nakashima, Eiji ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; CATARACT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78649989760     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1884.1     Document Type: Review

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