Radiation Safety: Implications for Urologists and Patients

Journal of Urology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 443-444

  Keeley Jr , Francis X ^a   Thornton, Mark ^a  

^a NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CANCER RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; TESTIS CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC LITHOTRIPSY; UROLITHIASIS; UROLOGICAL CARE;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, UROLOGICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROLOGY;

EID: 58149186455     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.11.051     Document Type: Editorial

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