Patient Radiation Exposure during Uterine Fibroid Embolization and the Dose Attributable to Aortography

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 573-576

  White, Amy M ^a   Banovac, Filip ^a   Spies, James B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GELATIN; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; AORTOGRAPHY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34047276622     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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