Environmental pollution by depleted uranium in Iraq with special reference to Mosul and possible effects on cancer and birth defect rates

Medicine, Conflict and Survival

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-25

  Fathi, Riyad Abdullah ^a   Matti, Lilyan Yaqup ^a   Al Salih, Hana Said ^a   Godbold, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOSUL   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

birth deformities; cancer; depleted uranium; environmental pollution; Iraq; Mosul; uranium

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; NEOPLASM; POLLUTION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; WAR;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GULF WAR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; NEOPLASMS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; URANIUM;

EID: 84876038139     PISSN: 13623699     EISSN: 17439396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13623699.2013.765173     Document Type: Article

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