Morphometric bronchoscopy in adults with central airway obstruction: Case illustrations and review of the literature

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1318-1324

  Murgu, Septimiu ^a,b   Colt, Henri G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic airway collapse; Morphometric bronchoscopy; Quantitative bronchoscopy; Tracheal stenosis; Tracheomalacia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 67949107896     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20478     Document Type: Article

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