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Chapter 28 - CT in the ED: Special Considerations

from Part III - Computed Tomography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2017

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Tarina Kang  and
Melissa Joseph
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J. Christian Fox
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Clinical Emergency Radiology , pp. 401 - 406
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