Safe use of contrast media: What the radiologist needs to know

Radiographics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1738-1750

  Beckett, Katrina R ^a   Moriarity, Andrew K ^a   Langer, Jessica M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; IODINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHILD; CONTRAINDICATIONS; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION; MALE; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PREGNANCY; PREMEDICATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOLOGY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; BARIUM SULFATE; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IODINE COMPOUNDS; LACTATION; MALE; NEPHROGENIC FIBROSING DERMOPATHY; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PREGNANCY; PREMEDICATION; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 84944317336     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.2015150033     Document Type: Review

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