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Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: mrblack on July 16, 2018, 03:37:04 PM

Title: How many X-rays?
Post by: mrblack on July 16, 2018, 03:37:04 PM

Which method needs the most X-rays and which one the least?  Where is low radiological and/or ultrasonic exposure?

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: mrblack on July 18, 2018, 08:25:33 PM

so nobody knows any information about that ?  :'(
maybe someone of the patients who already had a surgery please?

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: JON SNOW on July 18, 2018, 09:23:03 PM

most xrays  follow-up are frequently every 2 or 3 weeks

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: mrblack on July 19, 2018, 02:25:15 PM

internal or external?

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: JON SNOW on July 19, 2018, 05:07:36 PM

both methods,  and I did not worry about radiation exposure, the doses are low enough, In fact, maybe they give a net benefit (Radiation hormesis)

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: tallertree on July 19, 2018, 05:37:33 PM

Last time i took x-rays they took like 10 photos. Isnt that quite alot at the same time? Im thinking of the radiation

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: mrblack on July 19, 2018, 06:12:58 PM

10 pics at ones? Holy sh   thats much. Of course radiation today ist not so high anymore but the risk increases with every xray a little bit more. And during limb lengthening, both femur and tibias it all adds up to a lot in quite short period

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: notatroll on July 19, 2018, 09:18:35 PM

I had X-rays every 3 weeks .

Title: Re: How many X-rays?
Post by: myloginacc on July 20, 2018, 04:49:52 PM

Plain film x-rays are not a concern in terms of radiation. They amount to about a week's exposure of natural background radiation each, taking a few days off that, in certain cases.

CT scans are the ones that can amount to the equivalent of many years of background radiation exposure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_scan#Scan_dose