Helical computed tomographic minimum-intensity projection of a slit in an airway obstruction.

Endo, S; Murayama, F; Hasegawa, T; Sohara, Y; Fuse, K · Ann Thorac Surg · 1999

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We treated a 54-year-old man with an anastomotic obstruction after a right upper sleeve lobectomy. By using minimum intensity projection images that were generated from helical computed tomographic data sets that indicated a twisted slit enhanced with air a few millimeters in length, through anastomosis to the distal bronchus, we successfully treated the obstruction by bronchoscopic balloon dilatation.

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