Under the shadow of vesuvius: A risk for thyroid cancer?

Thyroid

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1296-1297

  Biondi, Bernadette ^a   Arpaia, Debora ^a   Montuori, Paolo ^a   Ciancia, Giuseppe ^a   Ippolito, Serena ^a   Pettinato, Guido ^a   Triassi, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; FLUORINE; IRON; MANGANESE; SELENIUM; VANADIUM;

AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SOIL; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLCANO;

HUMANS; RISK; THYROID NEOPLASMS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84870828388     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2012.0002     Document Type: Letter

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