Vascular rings and their effect on tracheal geometry

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 430-435

  Fleenor, J T ^a   Weinberg, P M ^a   Kramer, S S ^a   Fogel, M ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Tracheal geometry; Vascular rings

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TRACHEA; VASCULAR RING;

AORTA, THORACIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEA;

EID: 0043023699     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-002-0385-z     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Beekman R, Hazekamp M, Sobotka M, et al. (1998) A new diagnostic approach to vascular rings and pulmonary slings: the role of MRI. Magn Reson Imaging 16:137-145
2. Chun K, Colombani P, Dudgeon D, Haller J (1992) Diagnosis and management of congenital vascular rings: a 22-year experience. Ann Thorac Surg 53:597-602
3. Eklof O, Ekstrom G, Ericksson B (1971) Arterial anomalies causing compression of the trachea and/or the esophagus. Acta Paediatr Scand 60:81-89
4. Fyler D (1992) Nadas' Pediatric Cardiology. Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia
5. Griscom N (1982) Computed tomographic determination of tracheal dimensions in children and adolescents. Radiology 145:361-364
6. Griscom N, Wohl M (1985) Dimensions of the growing trachea related to body height. Am Rev Respir Dis 131:840-844
7. Griscom N, Wohl M (1986) Dimensions of the growing trachea related to age and gender. Am J Roentgenol 146:233-237
8. Ho V, Prince M (1998) Thoracic MR aortography: imaging techniques and strategies. Radiographics 18:287-309
9. Hoffman E, Gnanaprakasom D, Gupta K, et al. (1992) VIDA: an environment for multidimensional image display and analysis. Proc SPIE 1660:694-711
10. Katz M, Konen E, Rozenman J, Szeinberg A, Itzchak Y (1995) Spiral CT and 3D image reconstruction of vascular rings and associated trachealbronchial anomalies. J Comput Assisted Tomogr 19:564-568
11. Nikaidoh H, Riker W, Idriss F (1972) Surgical management of "vascular rings." Arch Surg 105:327
12. Pickhardt P, Siegel M, Gutierrez F (1997) Vascular rings in symptomatic children: frequency of chest radiographic findings. Radiology 205:581-582
13. Tonkin I, Elliott L, Bargeron L (1980) Concomitant axial cineangiography and barium esophagography in the evaluation of vascular rings. Radiology 135:69-76
14. van Son J, Julsrud P, Hagler D, et al. (2001) Imaging strategies for vascular rings. Ann Thorac Surg 57:604-610
15. Woods R, Sharp R, Holcomb G, et al. (2001) Vascular anomalies and tracheosophageal compression: a single institution's 25-year experience. Ann Thorac Surg 72:434-439