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Radiographic screening of infants and young children with genetic predisposition for rare malignancies: DICER1 mutations and pleuropulmonary blastoma.
AJR. American journal of roentgenology - 1 Apr 2015
Sabapathy Divya G, Guillerman R Paul, Orth Robert C, Zhang Wei, Messinger Yoav, Foulkes William, Priest John R, Annapragada Ananth V
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the risks of radiation in screening strategies using chest radiographs and CT to detect a rare cancer in a genetically predisposed population against the risks of undetected disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A decision analytic model of diagnostic imaging screening strategies was built to predict outcomes and cumulative radiation doses for children with DICER1...
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