Imaging of pregnant and lactating patients: Part 2, evidence-based review and recommendations

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 785-792

  Wang, Page I ^a   Chong, Suzanne T ^a   Kielar, Ania Z ^b   Kelly, Aine M ^a   Knoepp, Ursula D ^a   Mazza, Michael B ^a   Goodsitt, Mitchell M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency radiology; Evidence based radiology; Lactation; Pregnancy; Radiation protection

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LACTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UROGRAPHY; UROLITHIASIS;

ABNORMALITIES, RADIATION-INDUCED; APPENDICITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; LACTATION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 84859113470     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.8223     Document Type: Review

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