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33 - Radiation Accidents and the Medical Management of Acute Radiation Injury

from Subpart IIIA: - CBRNE and HAZMAT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Kristi L. Koenig
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University of California, Irvine
Carl H. Schultz
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University of California, Irvine
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