title: "Children are not small adults": avoiding common pitfalls of normal developmental variants in pediatric imaging.
abstract: Imaging of children is complicated with a vast array of normal variants, congenital or developmental disorders, and age-dependent differential considerations. We present imaging findings of several common anatomic variants as well as physiological and maturational processes that occur in children. We compare and contrast them with pathological entities so that the reader can successfully distinguish them when interpreting pediatric imaging examinations. The content has been accrued from the authors' collective experience at a tertiary-care pediatric hospital, teaching and consulting with radiology trainees and clinicians, as well as a comprehensive review of the literature, and is intended to represent a useful error prevention tool for radiologists interpreting pediatric studies.
authors: Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, Seattle. Electronic address: akshaybaheti@gmail.com.
authors: Akshay D
authors: AD
authors: Baheti
authors: Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, Seattle.
authors: Ramesh S
authors: RS
authors: Iyer
authors: Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, Seattle.
authors: Marguerite T
authors: MT
authors: Parisi
authors: Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, Seattle.
authors: Mark R
authors: MR
authors: Ferguson
authors: Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, Seattle.
authors: Edward
authors: E
authors: Weinberger
authors: Department of Radiology, Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, Seattle.
authors: A Luana
authors: AL
authors: Stanescu
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D041641:Musculoskeletal Development / Q000502:physiology; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods; D011871:Radiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: Anatomic variants; Developmental variants; Normal variants; Physiologic