Medical management of the acute radiation syndrome

Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 138-146

  López, Mario ^a   Martín, Margarita ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute radiation syndrome; Nuclear accident; Radiation exposure; Radiation injury

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CALCIUM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYTOKINE; FLUCONAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; GRANISETRON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; ONDANSETRON; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POTASSIUM IODIDE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME; ADD ON THERAPY; APLASIA; BINDING SITE; BLAST INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BURN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEOPARD SYNDROME; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPENIA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED EMESIS; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 79960645964     PISSN: 15071367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rpor.2011.05.001     Document Type: Review

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