MDCT assessment of tracheomalacia in symptomatic infants with mediastinal aortic vascular anomalies: Preliminary technical experience

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-88

  Lee, Edward Y ^a   Mason, Keira P ^a   Zurakowski, David ^a   Waltz, David A ^a   Ralph, Amy ^a   Riaz, Farhana ^a   Boiselle, Phillip M ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Infants; MDCT; Mediastinal aortic vascular anomalies; Tracheomalacia

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANOMALY; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TRACHEOMALACIA;

AORTA, THORACIC; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 36448958735     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-007-0672-1     Document Type: Article

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