Virtual Pediatric Hospital: MetaTextbook of Pediatric Radiology: Chest and Airway

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Chest and Airway

Michael P. D'Alessandro M.D.
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed

Imaging Modalities | Normal Variants | Upper Airway | Chest

I. Imaging Modalities

| Paediapaedia - Chest | Paediapaedia - Neonatal Chest |

A. Plain radiographs

B. CT (including high resolution)

C. Bronchography

D. Sonography

E. Fluouroscopy

F. Esophagography

G. MR

II. Normal Variants

A. Pulmonary embryology

B. Pulmonary anatomy | Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation |

C. Miscellaneous

1. Neonatal chest, normal | Chiang Mai U | Paediapaedia - Inspiratory |

2. Expiratory chest | CERF - Expiratory chest | Paediapaedia - Expiratory neonatal | Paediapaedia - Expiratory with tracheal buckling |

4. Poland's syndrome | Thoracopaedia |

III. Upper Airway

A. Congenital

2. Branchial cleft cyst | Correlapaedia | Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital |

3. Thyroglossal duct cyst | Correlapaedia |

4. Tracheomalacia / Bronchomalacia | Electric Airway |

5. Laryngeal stenosis, atresia, web | Thoracopaedia |

6. Laryngomalacia | Electric Airway |

7. Choanal atresia | Paediapaedia | Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital |

B. Inflammatory | U of Hawaii - Introduction |

1. Tonsillar enlargement / Adenoidal hypertrophy

3. Epiglottitis | Electric Airway | Paediapaedia | U of Hawaii |

C. Neoplasm

1. Juvenile angiofibroma

2. Subglottic hemangioma

3. Laryngeal papilloma | Chiang Mai U | Thoracopaedia |

D. Trauma

2. Subglottic stenosis, acquired | Electric Airway |

IV. Chest

A. Congenital

2. Bronchial atresia | CERF |

3. Bronchopulmonary foregut malformation

5. Lymphangiectasia | CERF | Paediapaedia |

B. Inflammatory

1. Infections

a. Pneumonia, bacterial

Pneumonia, chlamydia | Paediapaedia |

Pneumonia, haemophilus influenza

Pneumonia, mycoplasma | Paediapaedia | Radiology Central Resource |

Pneumonia, pertussis

Pneumonia, round | CERF | Paediapaedia |

Pneumatocele, post infectious | Thoracopaedia - 1 | Thoracopaedia - 2 |

Pneumonia, measles | CERF |

Pneumonia, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) | Paediapaedia - Bronchiolitis | WebPath |

Pneumonia, varicella

d. Pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii (PCP) | Paediapaedia |

2. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, pulmonary (AIDS) | Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital - LIP | U of Pittsburgh Pathology - LIP |

C. Neoplasms

1. Mediastinal neoplasms

c. Thymoma | CERF - Thymolipoma - 1 | CERF - Thymolipoma - 2 |

2. Primary pulmonary tumors

a. Adenoma, pulmonary

b. Hamartoma, pulmonary | WebPath - 1 | WebPath - 2 |

c. Hemangioma, pulmonary

d. Mesenchymal sarcoma, pulmonary (and their association with developmental cystic lesions of the lung)

D. Trauma

1. Contusion, pulmonary | Thoracopaedia - 1 | Thoracopaedia - 2 |

2. Airleak

c. Pulmonary interstitial emphysema (PIE) | Chiang Mai U | Paediapaedia |

d. Bronchopleural fistula | Thoracopaedia - 1 | Thoracopaedia - 2 |

e. Fracture of the tracheobronchial tree

f. Foreign body, airway | (See above III. D. 1. )

g. Bronchial stenosis, post-traumatic | CERF |

h. Diaphragmatic hernia, post-traumatic

i. Complications of tubes and lines, pulmonary | Thoracopaedia |

E. Unique problems in the neonate

1. Hyaline membrane disease (HMD) | Chiang Mai U | Paediapaedia | WebPath |

2. Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) | Chiang Mai U | Paediapaedia |

3. Pneumonia, neonatal | Chiang Mai U | Paediapaedia | WebPath |

4. Diaphragmatic hernia, congenital (CDH)

Eventration of the diaphragm | CERF - 1 | CERF - 2 | Paediapaedia |

Morgagni hernia | Correlapaedia | Thoracopaedia |

7. Persistent fetal circulation (PFC) | Paediapaedia | U of Kansas Cardiology |

8. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy and its complications | Paediapaedia - ECMO catheters |

9. Chylothorax | Paediapaedia | WebPath |

10. Airleak in the neonate (See IV. D. 2. directly above)

F. Miscellaneous

1. Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis | Paediapaedia | Radiology Central Resource |

2. Collagen vascular diseases | U of Hawaii - Goodpasture's |

3. Pneumothorax, spontaneous | Paediapaedia |

4. Pulmonary edema, cardiogenic and noncardiogenic (including Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)) | Paediapaedia - Cardiogenic | Paediapaedia - Noncardiogenic | Radiology Central Resource - Negative pressure | Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital - Lung injury |

5. Histiocytosis X, pulmonary (HX) | CERF - 1 | CERF - 2 | (See also Musculoskeletal System V. A. 6. and Neurological System IV. C. 5.)

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