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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
Accidental irradiation of an early and unknown pregnancy during abdomino-pelvic computed tomography has not yet been reported, but this situation will certainly occur as the indications for this type of investigation are extended. Assessment of foetal risk depends essentially, as in ordinary radiology, upon the X-ray dose received by the foetus. Only a few studies have been devoted to determination of the "gonad dose" received during an abdomino-pelvic scan. In ten patients undergoing abdomino-pelvic scan with a mean of 22.1 +/- 4.7 exposures per patient, the authors used a small thermoluminescent dose-meter placed in the uterus or endocervix to measure the gonad dose received. The dose delivered to the uterus was 1.67 cGy +/- 1.14 per patient, i.e. approximately the same as for hysterography (1.27 cGy). Thus any abdomino-pelvic scan before twelve weeks should be viewed as an indication for therapeutic abortion, whilst after twelve weeks the amount of radiation received does not in itself represent an indication for abortion.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0035-290X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
79
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-2, 5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Abortion, Induced, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Abortion, Therapeutic, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Adrenal Gland Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Female, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Fetus, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Gestational Age, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Hodgkin Disease, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Kidney Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Male, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Ovarian Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Ovary, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Pelvis, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Radiation Dosage, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Radiography, Abdominal, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Retroperitoneal Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Risk, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Thermoluminescent Dosimetry, pubmed-meshheading:6531583-Tomography, X-Ray Computed
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
[Evaluation of pelvic irradiation during x-ray computed tomography].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract