Tracheobronchial anomalies and stenoses: Detection with low-dose multidetector CT with virtual tracheobronchoscopy - Comparison with flexible tracheobronchoscopy

Radiology

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 542-549

  Heyer, Christoph M ^a   Nuesslein, Thomas G ^b   Jung, David ^b   Peters, Soeren A ^a   Lemburg, Stefan P ^a   Rieger, Christian H L ^b   Nicolas, Volkmar ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE TRACHEOBRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; VIRTUAL TRACHEOBRONCHOSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 33846514074     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2422060153     Document Type: Article

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