Cancer risk from diagnostic radiology in a deliberate self-harm patient

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 427-430

  Norelli, L J ^a,b   Coates, A D ^a,b   Kovasznay, B M ^a,b  

^a Capital District Psychiatric Center   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

deliberate self harm; iatrogenic disease; radiation; self injurious behaviour

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957374910     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2010.01538.x     Document Type: Article

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