[The medical problems of the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].
The article is devoted to medical problems of Chernobyl accident, specifically to the question of thyroid carcinoma in children who received increased doses of radioactive iodine (mainly of 131I) in the first days of the disaster. Some relevant reports made at the 3rd Congress of the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Societies are analyzed. The necessity of ultrasonic examination of the thyroid in children is pointed out. Special portable American-made apparatus is recommended for this purpose. Likelihood of leukaemia, lung cancer, gastrointestinal malign tumors as well as genetic disorders in descendants of irradiated people should also be remembered. Question of "clean" products and evacuation of the population residing in the 30-km zone must be solved.
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D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000009:adverse effects; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D011210:Power Plants; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D014455:Ukraine; D014463:Ultrasonography
D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes
Medychni problemy naslidkiv avariï na Chornobyl's'kiĭ AES.