Published October 1996 | Version v1
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Characteristic of thyroid diseases in participants of Chernobyl accident clean-up

Creators

  • 1. Khar'kovskij Nauchno-Issledovatel'skij Inst. Meditsinskoj Radiologii, Kharkov (Ukraine)

Description

The study involved 309 liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Plant (192 patients were investigated in 1990-1991 and 117 in 1992-1994). Nodular goiter and autoimmune thyroiditis (diffuse and nodular forms) against the background of thyroid hyperplasia occupy the leading place among the thyroid diseases in these patients. Thyroid cancer developed mainly in those liquidators who stayed in the zone of the accident during 'iodine' period. The incidence of thyroid pathology (mainly that autoimmune character and thyroid cancer) have increased in the participants of the Chernobyl accident clean-up recently

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Additional titles

Original title (Ukrainian)
Kharakteristika zakhvoryuvan' shchitovidnoyi zalozi v uchasnikyiv lyikvyidatsyiyi naslyidkyiv avaryiyi na ChAES

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Ukrayins'kij Radyiologyichnij Zhurnal
Journal Issue
no.4
Journal Page Range
p. 349-352.
ISSN
1027-3204
CODEN
URZHEF

INIS

Country of Publication
Ukraine
Country of Input or Organization
Ukraine
INIS RN
29007874
Subject category
S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
Descriptors DEI
CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR; CHRONIC IRRADIATION; DISEASES; GOITER; ICRP CRITICAL GROUP; MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; THYROID; THYROIDITIS; TIME DEPENDENCE
Descriptors DEC
ACCIDENTS; BODY; CHRONIC EXPOSURE; ENDOCRINE DISEASES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; GLANDS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; IRRADIATION; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; ORGANS; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS