Guidelines for computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging use during pregnancy and lactation

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 333-340

  Chen, Morie M ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a   Kaimal, Anjali ^a   Laros, Russell K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION; COLIC; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LACTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STANDARD; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; BREAST FEEDING; CARCINOGENESIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INJURY; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY COLIC; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SAFETY; REVIEW; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERATOGENESIS; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; X RAY PELVIMETRY;

ABNORMALITIES, RADIATION-INDUCED; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION; COLIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FETUS; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LACTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51649098569     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318180a505     Document Type: Editorial

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