Renal safety of gadolinium-based contrast agent for ionizing radiation imaging [1]

Radiology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 301-302

  Becker, Joshua ^a   Thompson, Henrik ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LETTER; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33745142533     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2401051442     Document Type: Letter

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