The diagnostic value of coronal airway CT scan for foreign body aspiration in children / 重庆医科大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective; To investigate the diagnostic value of coronal airway CT scan for foreign body aspiration in children. Methods; The X rays and CT findings in 51 cases of foreign body aspiration confirmed by endoscopy were reviewed . Results; The shape and location of foreign body in 51 cases were all distinctively showed on CT images. 6 of 8 cases of tracheal foreign body aspiration and 37 of 43 cases of bronchial foreign body aspiration were diagnosed with radiographic signs. Conclusion; The coronal CT scan has a compacity of demonstrating the foreign body intensively and dinstinctively, and can be used as an important diagnostic method for foreign body aspiration.