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Wilfred Dang, Pawel D. Stefanski, Ania Z. Kielar, Mohamed El-Khodary, Christian van der Pol, Rebecca Thornhill, Arash Jaberi, Angel Y. N. Fu, Matthew D. McInnes
Impact of clinical history on choice of abdominal/pelvic CT protocol in the Emergency Department
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