ABSTRACT
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) through the International Action Plan on Radiation Protection of Patients and the International Commission on Radiological Protection have for some time carried out important efforts to assure that in the medical applications of the ionising radiations, the optimisation of radiological protection of patients is fundamental, to such a point that the IAEA includes it directly as a requirement for these practices (in its International Basic Safety Standards for Protection against Ionising Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources (BSS)-GSR Part 1, 2011). For this reason, among the objectives of Regional Project RLA/9/057 and Regional Project RLA/9/067, the intention was to establish the dose references in conventional radiology for Latin America, for the purposes of determining whether these doses comply with the requirements of the BSS and to tend to improve practices, in order to minimise the dose received by the patients.
Subject(s)
Radiation Injuries/prevention & control , Radiation Monitoring/standards , Radiation Protection/standards , Radiography/standards , Humans , International Agencies/standards , Latin America , Radiation Dosage , Radiography/instrumentation , Reference StandardsABSTRACT
La hidatidosis es una enfermedad endémica en Chile. Se puede desarrollar en cualquier parte del cuerpo. Los órganos más frecuentemente afectados son el hígado en el adulto y el pulmón en los niños. La hidatidosis en localizaciones no habituales puede causar problemas diagnósticos. Revisamos la presentación de dos casos de hidatidosis cardio-pericárdica y pulmonar diagnosticadas con tomografía computada helicoidal, complementada con resonancia magnética en uno de ellos y confirmada con serología positiva para el equinococo y cirugía