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Helical computed tomographic minimum-intensity projection of a slit in an airway obstruction
S Endo1, F Murayama, T Hasegawa
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 24, 1999
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.