Synopsis
Dr Alice Roberts looks inside the body with a CT (computerized tomography) scan.
- Programme: Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young
- Series: 2
- Episode: 08: The Whole Body
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2008
- Health & Social Care
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