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Case Reports
. 2013 Jan;172(1):133.
doi: 10.1007/s00431-012-1870-x. Epub 2012 Oct 30.

Images in pediatrics: the thymic sail sign and thymic wave sign

Nuno D Alves  1 , Marta Sousa
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Images in pediatrics: the thymic sail sign and thymic wave sign

Nuno D Alves et al. Eur J Pediatr. 2013 Jan.

Abstract

The authors present a radiographic image portraying the "thymic sail sign" and the "thymic wave sign," both normal findings in infant radiographs and present a short description of these signs. These are distinguished from pathologic findings such as the "spinnaker-sail sign" in pneumomediastinum.

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