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Thorotrast logo #10101) Withdrawn drug
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Thorotrast

Thorotrast logo #21000 Thorotrast is a suspension containing particles of the radioactive compound thorium dioxide, ThO2, that was used as a radiocontrast agent in medical radiography in the 1930s and 1940s. (Use in some countries, such as the U.S., continued into the 1950s.) Thorium compounds produce excellent images because of thorium`s high opacity to X-rays (it has....
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thorotrast

thorotrast logo #20973<radiology> Previously used contrast agent, accumulated in RE system, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, thorium emits alpha particles, associated with: hepatobiliary carcinoma, leukaemia, aplastic anaemia, dense liver and spleen, bone within a bone ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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