Fluroscopy in paediatric fractures - Setting a local diagnostic reference level

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-190

  Pillai, Anand ^a   McAuley, Andrew ^b   McMurray, Kenneth ^a   Jain, Manav ^a  

^a WISHAW GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Strathclyde Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE FRACTURE; ARM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSIMETRY; ELBOW FRACTURE; FIBULA FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREARM FRACTURE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEG FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRICS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIME; TRAUMATOLOGY;

CHILD; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33845686217     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nck002     Document Type: Article

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