CT in pregnancy: Risks and benefits

Applied Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6-16

  Sadro, Claudia T ^a   Dubinsky, Theodore J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY COLIC; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CYST; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY TORSION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SAFETY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886430477     PISSN: 01609963     EISSN: 18792898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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