Preterm Infants Have Narrowed Upper Airways (IMAGE)

Children's National Hospital

Preterm Infants Have Narrowed Upper Airways

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The airway structures of interest to the Children's National research team included the nasopharynx (labeled red), oropharynx (labeled purple), hypopharynx (labeled green), adenoids (labeled yellow) and tonsils (labeled blue). The team displayed the volumetric imaging in three perpendicular planes and a three-dimensional model.

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Credit: A. Smitthimedhin, et al, <i>Clinical Imaging</i>.

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Please use this credit. Credit: A. Smitthimedhin, et al, Clinical Imaging.

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