TY  - JOUR
T1  - RAdiological cases of the month
AU  - Pramanik AK, Sharma S, Wood BP
Y1  - 1989/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150130105025
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 95
EP  - 96
VL  - 143
IS  - 1
N2  - A newborn male infant weighing 900 g was admitted to the intensive care unit at 8 hours of age with a diagnosis of prematurity and severe respiratory distress. He was delivered by cesarean section at 28 weeks' gestation to a 23-year-old mother. The Apgar scores were 2 and 3 at one and five minutes, respectively. The infant was intubated with difficulty following several unsuccessful attempts using an endotracheal tube that had an internal diameter of 2.5 mm and a metal stylet. At admission, the patient was in acute respiratory distress and required high ventilator pressures and oxygen.Repeated efforts to pass a 5-F orogastric tube met with resistance after 6 cm was introduced. After a nasogastric tube was placed in the stomach a chest roentgenogram was obtained (Fig 1). A roentgenogram of the chest was repeated (Fig 2) after instillation of 1 mL of water-soluble contrast material in the nasogastric
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150130105025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150130105025
ER  -