Evaluation of tracheobronchial anomalies in children using low-dose multidetector CT: Report of a 13-year-old boy with a Tracheal Bronchus and Recurrent Pulmonary Infections

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 168-173

  Heyer, Christoph M ^a   Kagel, Thomas ^a   Lemburg, Stefan P ^a   Nicolas, Volkmar ^a   Rieger, Christian H L ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

ACCESSORY BRONCHUS; ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FLEXIBLE BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW DOSE MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; POSTSTENOTIC BRONCHUS SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT MALFORMATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL BRONCHOSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEAL BRONCHUS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL MALFORMATION; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TRACHEOBRONCHOMALACIA; TRACHEOMALACIA; UPPER LUNG LOBE; VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; PNEUMONIA; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 3343002904     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20077     Document Type: Article

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