AJR Join ARRS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by EFFMANN, E. L.
Right arrow Articles by LEONIDAS, J. C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by EFFMANN, E. L.
Right arrow Articles by LEONIDAS, J. C.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

TRACHEAL AGENESIS

ERIC L. EFFMANN M.D., THOMAS J. SPACKMAN M.D., WALTER E. BERDON M.D., JERALD P. KUHN M.D., and JOHN C. LEONIDAS M.D.

Tracheal agenesis is a rare anomaly that produces neonatal respiratory distress and has been uniformly lethal to date. In this malformation the entire trachea is usually absent, air reaching the bronchi through a communication with the esophagus, and the lungs are normally formed. The diagnosis should be suspected in any infant in whom improved ventilation is obtained despite difficult intubation and abnormal tracheal tube placement.

Coexistent cardiac, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary anomalies are common.

The growth of the tracheoesophageal septum and the elongation of the dividing foregut are crucial phases in the morphogenesis of this malformation.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg.Home page
E. Hiyama, T. Yokoyama, T. Ichikawa, and Y. Matsuura
Surgical management of tracheal agenesis
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg., November 1, 1994; 108(5): 830 - 833.
[Abstract] [Full Text]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1975 by the American Roentgen Ray Society.