title: Helical computed tomographic minimum-intensity projection of a slit in an airway obstruction.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Murayama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sohara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fuse
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000009:adverse effects; D001980:Bronchi / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D001995:Bronchography; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002404:Catheterization; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed