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Review
. 2016 Nov-Dec;40(6):1182-1190.
doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2016.08.008. Epub 2016 Aug 12.

"Children are not small adults": avoiding common pitfalls of normal developmental variants in pediatric imaging

Akshay D Baheti  1 , Ramesh S Iyer  2 , Marguerite T Parisi  2 , Mark R Ferguson  2 , Edward Weinberger  2 , A Luana Stanescu  2
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Review

"Children are not small adults": avoiding common pitfalls of normal developmental variants in pediatric imaging

Akshay D Baheti et al. Clin Imaging. 2016 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

Imaging of children is complicated with a vast array of normal variants, congenital or developmental disorders, and age-dependent differential considerations. We present imaging findings of several common anatomic variants as well as physiological and maturational processes that occur in children. We compare and contrast them with pathological entities so that the reader can successfully distinguish them when interpreting pediatric imaging examinations. The content has been accrued from the authors' collective experience at a tertiary-care pediatric hospital, teaching and consulting with radiology trainees and clinicians, as well as a comprehensive review of the literature, and is intended to represent a useful error prevention tool for radiologists interpreting pediatric studies.

Keywords: Anatomic variants; Developmental variants; Normal variants; Physiologic.

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