Major trauma & cervical clearance radiation doses & cancer induction

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 347-356

  Richards, Paula J ^a,b   Summerfield, Ruth ^a   George, Jennifer ^c   Hamid, Amr ^a   Oakley, Peter ^a  

^a Royal Manchester Children's   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body CT; Cancer induction; Cervical clearance; Cervical spine; CT; Major trauma; Multiply injured; Radiation dose measurement; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER RISK; CERVICAL SPINE; HUMAN; INJURY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RISK FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38949133110     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.06.013     Document Type: Article

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