Changes in pediatric thyroid sonograms in or nearby the Kanto region before and after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 875-881

  Iwaku, Kenji ^a   Noh, Jaeduk Yoshimura ^a   Sasaki, Eiji ^a   Suzuki, Nami ^a   Kameda, Tosiaki ^a   Kobayashi, Sakiko ^a   Yoshihara, Ai ^a   Ohye, Hidemi ^a   Watanabe, Natsuko ^a   Suzuki, Miho ^a   Matsumoto, Masako ^a   Kunii, Yo ^a   Mukasa, Koji ^a   Sugino, Kiminori ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a  

^a ITO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pediatric; Thyroid; Thyroid sonograms

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INTRATHYROID ECTOPIC THYMUS; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SCHOOL CHILD; THYMUS DISEASE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CYST; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROID ULTRASONOGRAPHY; CHORISTOMA; CYST; EARTHQUAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; THYMUS; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHORISTOMA; CYSTS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84907549055     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ14-0032     Document Type: Article

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