Appropriate and safe use of diagnostic imaging

American Family Physician

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 494-501

  Crownover, Brian K ^a   Bepko, Jennifer L ^a  

^a Nellis Air Force Base   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; GADOVERSETAMIDE; THALLIUM;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PREGNANCY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; THORAX PAIN; UROLITHIASIS; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 84875601661     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 15320650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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