Risk estimates for meningiomas and other late effects after diagnostic X-ray exposure of the skull

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 305-309

  Pflugbeil, S ^a   Pflugbeil, C ^b   Schmitz Feuerhake, I ^a  

^a German Society of Radiation Protection   (Germany)

^b Immanuel Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION INJURY; RISK FACTOR; SKULL; X RAY;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 81255166791     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr344     Document Type: Article

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