Evaluation of emergency CT scans of the head: Is there a community standard?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1727-1730

  Erly, William K ^a   Ashdown, Boyd C ^b   Lucio II, Richard W ^c   Carmody, Raymond F ^a   Seeger, Joachim F ^a   Alcala, Jennifer N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Radiology Limited Tucson   (United States)

^c Carondelet St Mary's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0038511970     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.180.6.1801727     Document Type: Article

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