OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION DOSE PERFORMING HEPATOBILIARY MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURES IN CHILDREN WEIGHING LESS THAN 20 kg

Our objective is to retrospectively evaluate the effective dose (E) of operators performing pediatric Hepatobiliary Minimally Invasive Procedures (HMIP). Between October 2015 and December 2017, 58 consecutive HMIP were performed on 26 children weighing less than 20 kg (mean 12.3 kg, median 13 kg, range 2.4–20 kg). About 31 vascular procedures (n = 9 hepatic venograms with/without stenting; n = 9 retrograde wedge portography; n = 8 transhepatic...