Hochauflösende Computertomographie der Lunge im Kindesalter
Autor: | Martin Heller, T. Ankermann, H. C. Oppermann, Michael Reuter, Jürgen Biederer |
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Rok vydání: | 2002 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung business.industry Respiratory disease Bronchiolitis obliterans respiratory system medicine.disease Air trapping respiratory tract diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Bronchopulmonary dysplasia El Niño Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology medicine.symptom Reticular Pattern business Pulmonologists |
Zdroj: | RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren. 174:684-695 |
ISSN: | 1438-9010 1438-9029 |
DOI: | 10.1055/s-2002-32229 |
Popis: | Since the introduction of the high-resolution technique more than ten years ago, HRCT has become an established modality for diagnosing diseases of the respiratory system. This is especially true for the diagnosis of lung diseases in adults. Experience in HRCT of the lungs is limited in pediatric patients. This review gives an overview of frequent and less frequent HRCT findings in pulmonary diseases in childhood. A purely reticular pattern is rarely observed in infants. Pulmonary diseases associated with overinflation are relatively frequent. Paired inspiratory-expiratory scans combine morphological analysis with functional information and have improved the diagnosis of air trapping, e. g. in post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans or bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Especially in children the high radiation exposure is a problem. Even when applying a low-dose protocol the radiation dose of HRCT will still exceed the dose of a chest X-ray by 100 times. The indication for pediatric pulmonary HRCT is limited to selected cases and it should be decided in agreement with the pediatric radiologists and the pediatric pulmonologists. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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