title: CT diagnosis of traumatic bronchial rupture in children.
abstract: Bronchial rupture is a rare and serious complication of blunt chest trauma in children. The diagnosis of this injury is challenging and requires a high degree of clinical suspicion. It is frequently associated with other severe injuries that may draw the focus of attention away from this potentially catastrophic but treatable injury. The radiographic findings of bronchial rupture have been reported in very few series. We report the findings in two children with bronchial rupture diagnosed by CT, in whom CT resulted in a significant change in patient management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Rambam Medical Center, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. monica.epelman@sickkids.ca
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Epelman
authors.forename: Amos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ofer
authors.forename: Yoram
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Leal H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Best
authors.forename: Ludmila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guralnik
authors.forename: Lea
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bentur
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Traubici
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000293:Adolescent; D001980:Bronchi / Q000293:injuries*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012421:Rupture; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery