Variations of the tracheobronchial tree: Anatomical and clinical significance

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1223-1233

  Wooten, Candace ^a   Patel, Swetal ^a   Cassidy, Lindsey ^a   Watanabe, Koichi ^b   Matusz, Petru ^c   Shane Tubbs, R ^a,b   Loukas, Marios ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Grenada)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

accessory cardiac bronchus; bridging bronchus; bronchial isomerism; congenital variations; tracheal bronchus; tracheal diverticulum; tracheobronchial anatomy

Indexed keywords

BRIDGING BRONCHUS; BRONCHIAL ISOMERISM; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CARDIAC BRONCHUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRACHEAL BRONCHUS; TRACHEAL DIVERTICULUM; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; TRACHEA;

ANATOMIC VARIATION; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; TRACHEA;

EID: 84908260992     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.22351     Document Type: Review

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