Unnecessary radiation exposure from medical imaging in the rheumatology patient

Rheumatology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1537-1539

  Picano, Eugenio ^a   Matucci Cerinic, Marco ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RHEUMATOLOGY; RISK; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 80051935891     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq412     Document Type: Editorial

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