Résumé L'irradiation au cours de la vie intra-utérine peut se produire soit durant la
radiocontamination du milieu, soit après un acte médical fait à l'aide des rayons x ou des …

A major contraindication of radiodiagnostic procedures is pregnancy. Approximately 1% of
all pregnant women are given abdominal x-rays during the first trimester of preg-nancy …

Radiation exposure to pregnant women from diagnostic procedures will almost never result
in fetal-absorbed doses that are high enough to cause damage to the fetus unless multiple …

The potential biological effects of in utero radiation exposure of a developing fetus include
prenatal death, intrauterine growth restriction, small head size, mental retardation, organ …

The discoveries of X-rays and radioactivity at the end of the nineteenth century represented
major events for medicine that have paved the way for extraordinary diagnostic and …

Several modalities are currently utilized for diagnosis and therapy, by appropriate
application of x‐rays. In diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology, radiotherapy …

Many pregnant women are exposed to radiation either as a patient or as an employee.
Ignorance of the issues surrounding the radiation exposure of pregnant females is …

The authors discuss the problem of radiation damage to the individual developing in utero,
and summarize the information available in the literature on the subject. Additional risks …

Diagnostic Radiation in Pregnancy: Perception Versus True Risks Page 1 DRUGS IN
PREGNANCY MOTHERISK ROUNDS Diagnostic Radiation in Pregnancy: Perception Versus …

Risk, DANCE, IAzAnD AND Eor: ADY are synonymous inasmuch as they suggest absence
of control over events. However, there are differcnces of nuance among these terms of …