Radiation injury is a potentially serious complication to fluoroscopically-guided complex interventions

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Wagner, Louis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTOCK; COMMUNITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; ERYTHEMA; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MONITORING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECK; PAIN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RASH; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN STRUCTURE; THORAX; X RAY;

EID: 57049084733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.3.2.e22     Document Type: Review

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