Published 1980
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Case of child abuse by radiation exposure
Creators
Description
On 2 May 1974, a father was convicted of castrating his 13-year-old son by exposing him to a 1-curie source of 137Cs to be used for oil gas well logging. The child was subjected to perhaps eight exposures or attempted exposures over a six-month period. A brief discussion of the medical descriptions of the radiation effects upon the skin and testes and the chromosomal system is included
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Elsevier North Holland, Inc.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY
- Imprint Title
- Medical basis for radiation accident preparedness
- Journal Page Range
- p. 197-203.
Conference
- Title
- Radiation accident preparedness conference.
- Dates
- 19 - 20 Oct 1979.
- Place
- Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 12604920
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BLOOD COUNT; CASTRATION; CESIUM 137; CHILDREN; CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; LOCAL IRRADIATION; RADIATION DOSES; RADIODERMATITIS; REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS; SKIN; TESTES
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMALS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BODY; CESIUM ISOTOPES; DERMATITIS; DISEASES; GONADS; INJURIES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; LOCAL RADIATION EFFECTS; MALE GENITALS; MAMMALS; MAN; MEDICINE; MUTATIONS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS; PRIMATES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOISOTOPES; SKIN DISEASES; SURGERY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM DISEASES; VERTEBRATES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES