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Utility of Gadolinium-Based Contrast in Initial Evaluation of Seizures in Children Presenting Emergently

Denas Andrijauskis, Graham Woolf, Alexander Kuehne, Khalid Al-Dasuqi, Cicero T. Silva, Seyedmehdi Payabvash and Ajay Malhotra
American Journal of Neuroradiology October 2023, 44 (10) 1208-1211; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A7976
Denas Andrijauskis
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Graham Woolf
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Alexander Kuehne
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Khalid Al-Dasuqi
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Cicero T. Silva
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Seyedmehdi Payabvash
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Ajay Malhotra
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Denas Andrijauskis, Graham Woolf, Alexander Kuehne, Khalid Al-Dasuqi, Cicero T. Silva, Seyedmehdi Payabvash, Ajay Malhotra
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