Radiation exposure during endourologic procedures using over-the-table fluoroscopy sources

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-51

  Ritter, Manuel ^a   Krombach, Patrick ^a   Martinschek, Andreas ^a   Siegel, Fabian P ^a   Schmitt, Martin ^a   Weiss, Christel ^b   Häcker, Axel ^a   Pelzer, Alexandre E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; EYE; FEMALE; FINGER; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREHEAD; HUMAN; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; SURGEON; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THYROID GLAND; URETER STENT; URETERORENOSCOPY; X RAY;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIANS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; X-RAYS;

EID: 84855423896     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2011.0333     Document Type: Article

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