A 22-year-old women who comlained of a severe chest pain was sent for a radiograph of her thorax. Is it advisable to examine a healthy female's chest demographically during the last week of her menstrual cycle? Are birth defects likely to develop in her conceptus if she happens to be pregnant?
Would it be okay for a woman to fly from Europe to America during the last week of her menstrual cycle? Because then she’d be exposed to 100-200 time the radiation than just an xray (ca. the amount of radiation of a CT)