Screening adolescents for metallic foreign bodies before MR procedures.
The report describes a case in which routine prescreening procedures were found to be inadequate for an adolescent patient referred for MR imaging. Recommendations are provided to correct this potential problem.
Elmquist
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California Advanced Imaging, San Francisco, USA.
Shellock
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Stoller
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D008670:Metals; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors
D008670:Metals