Occupational exposure from common fluoroscopic projections used in orthopaedic surgery

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1698-1703

  Theocharopoulos, Nicholas ^a   Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Damilakis, John ^a   Papadokostakis, George ^b   Hadjipavlou, Alexander ^b   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIP; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; LENS; LUMBAR SPINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; SPINE SURGERY; SURGEON; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0141563573     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200309000-00007     Document Type: Article

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