Appropriate use of CT in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6-13

  Hentel, Keith D ^a   Sharma, Rahul ^a   Wladyka, Christopher ^a   Min, Robert J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 80051870243     PISSN: 00136654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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