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AAP Grand Rounds 3:14 (2000) Chest Wall Abnormalities: When to ImageSource: Donnelly LF, Frush DP, Foss JN, et al. Anterior chest wall: frequency of anatomic variations in children. Radiology. 1999;212:837840.
The authors evaluated 200 consecutive chest CT examinations of infants and children at Duke University Medical Center (mean age 10.5 years, range 3 months-19 years). The most common indications for CT were evaluations for pulmonary metastases, suspicion of mediastinal mass, follow-up of lymphoma, evaluation for pulmonary infections in an immunocompromised host and complications of pneumonia, or mediastinal hematoma. Children who had undergone chest wall surgery or were suspected
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