Conceptus radiation dose and risk from cardiac catheter ablation procedures

Circulation

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 893-897

  Damilakis, John ^a   Theocharopoulos, Nicholas ^a   Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Manios, Emmanouel ^a   Dimitriou, Panayiotis ^b   Vardas, Panos ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Imaging; Pregnancy; Radiography; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS RISK; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0035928762     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hc5790.094909     Document Type: Article

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