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Loss of Consciousness: When to Perform Computed Tomography?
We hypothesized that patients with a GCS 15 and a completely normal examination including the lack of a cephalohematoma would not have an intracranial injury and may not require a head CT scan as ...
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This medical test may cause cancer due to ‘unfathomable’ mistake — and it’s performed 93M times a year in the US
Repeated CT scans of the head during childhood have also been linked to a slight increase in the risk of developing a brain tumor later in life due to radiation exposure. In a landmark 2009 study ...
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Computed tomography (CT) - what patients need to know
What are the typical radiation doses associated with CT examinations? CT scans of the head, for example, expose patients to about the equivalence of one year of natural radiation. This is about 100 ...
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Innovative CT scan technique could improve prognosis and treatments for head and neck cancers
analyzed the pre-treatment CT scans of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) to locate radiomic biomarkers that can be used to predict the aggressiveness of the disease and ...