Targeted delayed scanning at CT urography: A worthwhile use of radiation?

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-150

  Hack, Kalesha ^a,b   Pinto, Patricia A ^a   Gollub, Marc J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC UROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TARGETED DELAYED SCANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URETER TUMOR; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT BIOPSY; UROGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URETEROSCOPY; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 84866629735     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12110548     Document Type: Article

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