Prenatal radiation exposure: Background material for counseling pregnant patients following exposure to radiation

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-68

  Donnelly, Elizabeth H ^a   Smith, James M ^a   Farfán, Eduardo B ^b   Ozcan, Ibrahim ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal radiation dose; Prenatal radiation exposure; Radiation health effects; Radiological emergencies; Tutorial

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THYROID GLAND;

ABNORMALITIES, RADIATION-INDUCED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 79960885859     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2011.2     Document Type: Article

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