Patient and surgeon radiation exposure in balloon catheter sinus ostial dilation

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-191

  Church, Christopher A ^a   Kuhn, Frederick A ^b   Mikhail, Janel ^a   Vaughan, Winston C ^c   Weiss, Raymond L ^d  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Georgia Nasal and Sinus Institute   (United States)

^c California Sinus Institute   (United States)

^d Sinus Center of the South   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD;

BALLOON DILATATION; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMANS; MAXILLARY SINUS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK FACTORS; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 38649127282     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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