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. 2014 Sep;83(3):158-70.

Radiation - friend or foe? Presidential address to Ulster Medical Society 4th October 2012

Roy Spence  1
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Radiation - friend or foe? Presidential address to Ulster Medical Society 4th October 2012

Roy Spence. Ulster Med J. 2014 Sep.
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Figures

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, 1845 – 1923
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The first X-ray – bones of the hand (possibly Fraulein Roentgen)
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Congratulatory letter from Lord Kelvin to Roentgen
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Portable X-ray machine – 19th Century
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Acute radiation burn - during radiotherapy for breast cancer
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Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
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Radiation stricture to small bowel
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Hodgkin's disease requiring mantle radiotherapy
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CT scan of liver trauma (reproduced with kind permission of Dr Barry Kelly)
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CT scan of acute appendicitis (reproduced with kind permission of Mr Stephen Badger)
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CT scan of an incidental benign lung nodule (reproduced with kind permission of Dr Barry Kelly)
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CT scan with endovascular stent in situ (reproduced with kind permission of Mr Stephen Badger)
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Scan showing endoleak post EVAR detected at follow-up CT (reproduced with kind permission of Mr Stephen Badger)
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CT coronary angiogram (of the author!) following cardiac bypass
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Chernobyl, 1986
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