How accurate is cancer scan reporting?

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 637-642

  Fitzgerald, Richard ^a,b   Mehra, Rakesh ^a  

^a Consultant Radiologist ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034263679     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.2000.61.9.1421     Document Type: Article

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