Computed tomography in the emergency department
Jacob Sosna
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Jacob Sosna
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- Address reprint requests to Dr Sosna, Department of Radiology, Hadassah University Hospital, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
B.Simon Slasky, MD
, Jacob Bar-Ziv, MD
From the Department of Radiology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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