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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2016

01-12-2016 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Ultrasonographic diagnosis of tracheal compression

Authors: Oliviero Fochi, Moreno Favarato, Ezio Bonanomi

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2016

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A 3-year-old child with a history of surgery for esophageal atresia suffered an episode of sudden respiratory distress, severe cyanosis and loss of consciousness at home while eating potatoes. He was resuscitated by the emergency medical service and transported to our hospital, where he was intubated, stabilized and transferred to our intensive care unit. The chest X-ray was unremarkable, while a right upper lobe atelectasis was visible on pulmonary ultrasonography (US). Bronchoscopy revealed a compression of the lower two-thirds of a seemingly malacic trachea, extending to the carina and the right main bronchus. No foreign body was visible. …
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Title
Ultrasonographic diagnosis of tracheal compression
Authors
Oliviero Fochi
Moreno Favarato
Ezio Bonanomi
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4305-8

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