title: Minimizing radiation injury and neoplastic effects during pediatric fluoroscopy: what should we know?
abstract: Radiation-induced injuries from fluoroscopic procedures in pediatric patients have occurred, and young patients are at greatest risk of many radiation-induced neoplasms. Some fluoroscopists have been injured from their use of fluoroscopy, and they are known to be at risk of radiation-induced neoplasm when radiation is not well-controlled. This article reviews the circumstances that lead to radiation injury and delineates some procedural methods to avoid injury and limit radiation exposure to both the patient and the fluoroscopist.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6431 Fannin St., Houston, TX 77030, USA. Louis.K.Wagner@uth.tmc.edu
authors.forename: Louis Kenneth
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D001822:Body Burden; D002648:Child; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005471:Fluoroscopy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*