What are the risks to the fetus associated with diagnostic radiation exposure during pregnancy?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Smits, Ariel K ^a   Paladine, Heather L ^a   Judkins, Dolores Zegar ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; INTERNET; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TERATOGENESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FETUS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646678643     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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