Assessing Health Implications of the Potential Radiation Exposure in the Community During Pregnancy: A Case Study

The unintentional radiation exposure can have significant implications. We present a case of a 30-year-old pregnant female who was exposed to a potentially radioactive rock for over a one week period during her 13(th) week of pregnancy. After an arduous process of obtaining activity measurements, th...

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Autores principales: Wong, Jordan, Clark, Haley, Corns, Robert, Tyldesley, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Environmental Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29238629
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1770
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description The unintentional radiation exposure can have significant implications. We present a case of a 30-year-old pregnant female who was exposed to a potentially radioactive rock for over a one week period during her 13(th) week of pregnancy. After an arduous process of obtaining activity measurements, the most conservative estimate of dose, the female was exposed to, was found to fall within the permissible limits. We briefly describe the literature on fetal radiation toxicity levels and discuss logistical issues faced in managing such cases.
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spelling pubmed-57267322017-12-13 Assessing Health Implications of the Potential Radiation Exposure in the Community During Pregnancy: A Case Study Wong, Jordan Clark, Haley Corns, Robert Tyldesley, Scott Cureus Environmental Health The unintentional radiation exposure can have significant implications. We present a case of a 30-year-old pregnant female who was exposed to a potentially radioactive rock for over a one week period during her 13(th) week of pregnancy. After an arduous process of obtaining activity measurements, the most conservative estimate of dose, the female was exposed to, was found to fall within the permissible limits. We briefly describe the literature on fetal radiation toxicity levels and discuss logistical issues faced in managing such cases. Cureus 2017-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5726732/ /pubmed/29238629 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1770 Text en Copyright © 2017, Wong et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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