Thorium Dioxide
"Thorium Dioxide" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Thorium oxide (ThO2). A radiographic contrast agent that was used in the early 1930s through about 1954. High rates of mortality have been linked to its use and it has been shown to cause liver cancer.
| Descriptor ID |
D013911
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.650.550.875 D01.930.930
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Dinarello CA, Bodel PT, Atkins E. The role of the liver in the production of fever and in pyrogenic tolerance. Trans Assoc Am Physicians. 1968; 81:334-44.