title: Improved visualization of the lumbar spine and sacrum in pediatric patients by use of the pneumatic compression paddle.
abstract: The lumbosacral spine in infants and young children is usually partially obscured on frontal radiographs by gas-filled intestinal loops. Displacement of the intestine by an air-filled balloon compression device improves visualization of the spine.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008161:Lumbosacral Region / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*