Duration of Fluoroscopic-Guided Spine Interventions and Radiation Exposure Is Increased in Overweight Patients

PM and R

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 291-296

  Smuck, Matthew ^a   Zheng, Patricia ^b   Chong, Timothy ^c   Kao, Ming Chih ^a   Geisser, Michael E ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876860687     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2013.01.015     Document Type: Article

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