Aluminum foreign bodies: Do they show up on x-ray?

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 30-33

  Valente, Jonathan H ^a,b   Lemke, Thomas ^a   Ridlen, Mark ^a   Ritter, Dale ^a   Clyne, Brian ^a   Reinert, Steven E ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Foreign body; Radiograph

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FOREIGN BODY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHARYNX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALUMINUM; CADAVER; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 29044442980     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-005-0437-9     Document Type: Article

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