Patient effective dose and radiogenic risks from fluoroscopically assisted surgical reconstruction of femoral fractures

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-72

  Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Damilakis, John ^a   Theocharopoulos, Nicholas ^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

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOM; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0842346725     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch005     Document Type: Article

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