Unusual burns of the lower extremities caused by a closed conducting loop in a patient at MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 572-575

  Knopp, Michael V ^a   Essig, Marco ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Zabel, Hans Joachim ^a   Van Kaick, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance (MR); safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029996658     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.200.2.8685360     Document Type: Article

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