Quantitative Assessment of Diagnostic Radiation Doses in Adult Blunt Trauma Patients

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-97

  Winslow, James E ^a   Hinshaw, Jeffrey W ^a   Hughes, Michael J ^a   Williams, Rodney C ^a   Bozeman, William P ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 48949117392     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.12.019     Document Type: Article

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