Fluoroscopy-induced chronic radiation skin injury: A disease perhaps often overlooked

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 637-640

  Frazier, Thomas H ^a   Richardson, Jeffrey B ^a   Fabré, Vilma C ^a   Callen, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; FLUOROSCOPY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INJURY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIODERMATITIS;

EID: 34249039235     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.143.5.637     Document Type: Article

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