Airway sizes and proportions in children quantified by a video-bronchoscopic technique

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Masters, Ian B ^a,b   Ware, Robert S ^a   Zimmerman, Paul V ^c   Lovell, Brian ^a   Wootton, Richard ^a   Francis, Paul V ^a,b   Chang, Anne B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICOID; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG LOBE; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEP WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; STUDENT T TEST; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33645465456     PISSN: 14712466     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-6-5     Document Type: Article

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