Image-guided reconstruction of femoral fractures: Is the staff progeny safe?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 430, Issue , 2005, Pages 182-188

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FEMUR FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIATION SHIELD;

EID: 11844282687     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000143740.15255.82     Document Type: Article

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