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Pediatric Imaging in Global Health Radiology

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Pediatric Radiology is unique in its attention to the diagnostic imaging needs of the children of the world. In low-resource settings, it is important that the challenging needs of the pediatric patient are addressed through appropriate expertise, training, and equipment. This chapter helps focus on those challenges, takes a systemic approach to common clinical diseases seen in low-resource settings, and, finally, reviews some specific diseases associated with high morbidity and mortality in the global pediatric population.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Charles M. Maxfield

  2. Department of Radiology, Novant Health Hemby Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Sinisa Haberle

  3. Department of Paediatrics, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Cheri Nijssen-Jordan

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Maxfield, C.M., Haberle, S., Nijssen-Jordan, C. (2019). Pediatric Imaging in Global Health Radiology. In: Mollura, D., Culp, M., Lungren, M. (eds) Radiology in Global Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98485-8_18

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