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Feature article| Volume 18, ISSUE 2, P77-84, June 2007

Diagnostic imaging of the adult airway

  • Nafi Aygun
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    Address reprint requests and correspondence: Nafi Aygun, MD, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Phipps B-126-A, Baltimore, MD 21287.
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    Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland.
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  • James S. Zinreich
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    Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland.
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      Imaging evaluation of the airway is essential in a variety of clinical situations. The role of imaging in diagnosis and management of disease processes involving the oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, and trachea is discussed. Characteristic imaging futures of several disorders are illustrated.

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