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Indications au CT low-dose aux urgences |
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| Published in | Revue médicale suisse. 2009, vol. 5, no. 213, p. 1590-4 | |
| Abstract | CT delivers a large dose of radiation, especially in abdominal imaging. Recently, a low-dose abdominal CT protocol (low-dose CT) has been set-up in our institution. "Low-dose CT" is almost equivalent to a single standard abdominal radiograph in term of dose of radiation (about one sixth of those delivered by a standard CT). "Low-dose CT" is now used routinely in our emergency service in two main indications: patients with a suspicion of renal colic and those with right lower quadrant pain. It is obtained without intravenous contrast media. Oral contrast is given to patients with suspicion of appendicitis. "Low-dose CT" is used in the frame of well defined clinical algorithms, and does only replace standard CT when it can reach a comparable diagnostic quality. | |
| Keywords | Algorithms — Emergency Service, Hospital — Humans — Radiation Dosage — Radiography, Abdominal — Tomography, X-Ray Computed | |
| Identifiers | PMID: 19754008 | |
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Article (Published version) (1.6 MB) - Limited access to UNIGE Other version: http://rms.medhyg.ch/numero-213-page-1590.htm |
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| Research groups | Groupe Iselin Christophe (urologie) (106) Radiologie des urgences (800) | |
| Citation (ISO format) | POLETTI, Pierre-Alexandre Alois et al. Indications au CT low-dose aux urgences. In: Revue médicale suisse, 2009, vol. 5, n° 213, p. 1590-4. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:32421 |
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