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Association Between Exposure To Radioactive Iodine After The Chernobyl Accident And Thyroid Volume In Belarus 10-15 Years Later, Ekaterina Chirikova, Robert J Mcconnell, Patrick O'Kane, Vasilina Yauseyenka, Mark P Little, Victor Minenko, Vladimir Drozdovitch, Ilya Veyalkin, Maureen Hatch, June M Chan, Chiung-Yu Huang, Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Elizabeth K Cahoon, Alexander Rozhko, Lydia B Zablotska
Association Between Exposure To Radioactive Iodine After The Chernobyl Accident And Thyroid Volume In Belarus 10-15 Years Later, Ekaterina Chirikova, Robert J Mcconnell, Patrick O'Kane, Vasilina Yauseyenka, Mark P Little, Victor Minenko, Vladimir Drozdovitch, Ilya Veyalkin, Maureen Hatch, June M Chan, Chiung-Yu Huang, Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Elizabeth K Cahoon, Alexander Rozhko, Lydia B Zablotska
Department of Radiology Faculty Papers
Background: While there is a robust literature on environmental exposure to iodine-131 (131I) in childhood and adolescence and the risk of thyroid cancer and benign nodules, little is known about its effects on thyroid volume.
Methods: To assess the effect of 131I dose to the thyroid on the volume of the thyroid gland, we examined the data from the baseline screening of the Belarusian-American Cohort Study of residents of Belarus who were exposed to the Chernobyl fallout at ages ≤18 years. Thyroid dose estimates were based on individual thyroid activity measurements made shortly after the accident and dosimetric data from …