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Oral contrast utilization for abdominal/pelvic CT scanning in today’s emergency room setting

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following members of the Ronald O. Perelman department of Emergency Medicine, NYU-Langone Medical Center for their assistance and comments: Robert J. Femia, MD, MBA Chair, Joeury Nunez, Senior Data Analyst, and David T. Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine.

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Megibow, A.J. Oral contrast utilization for abdominal/pelvic CT scanning in today’s emergency room setting. Abdom Radiol 42, 781–783 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-016-0941-2

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