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Relevance and usefulness of head CT-scan requests in the management of adult headaches: A cross-sectional study in two referral hospitals in Cameroon

2019-09-27

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: In developing sub-Saharan Africa countries such as Cameroon, the head CT-scan, which is more available and accessible than magnetic resonance imaging, gold standard, exposes to a high irradiation dose level and is still expensive. In those countries, head CT-scan has become a routine exploration in patients with headache. In front of this inflation, it is necessary to assess...

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Literature Corpus work: 6a10ae78-e36f-5b63-871d-e35dff9a6960
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.14218/v1

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