Visualization of pleural fissures in infants on computed tomography

• Main Authors: Andrew Phelps (Author), Cynthia Tan (Author), Saveen Ahuja (Author), Dean Kolnick (Author), Jesse Courtier (Author), John D MacKenzie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose For infants with prenatally detected lung lesions, a chest CT is performed prior to surgery. The chest CT is performed as close to the surgery date as possible, because it is presumed that the visualization of lung fissures would be poor in the immediate neonatal setting. However, this presu...