Radiation Exposure From Diagnostic Imaging Among Patients With Gastrointestinal Disorders

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-265

  Desmond, Alan N ^a   McWilliams, Sebastian ^a   Maher, Michael M ^a   Shanahan, Fergus ^a   Quigley, Eamonn M ^a  

^a Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Cancer Risk; Computed Tomography; CT Scan; Diagnosis; Test

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INDETERMINATE COLITIS; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857192553     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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