Imaging the pregnant patient: A uniform approach

Journal of Women's Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-21

  Fielding, Julia R ^a   Washburn, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Imaging; MRI; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; ALGORITHM; APPENDICITIS; BACKACHE; CANCER STAGING; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYONEPHROSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 17344373161     PISSN: 1084824X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jwi.0000160952.44632.65     Document Type: Review

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