​Pediatric chest radiographs: common and less common errors.

Sarah J. Menashe; Ramesh S. Iyer; Marguerite T. Parisi; Randolph K. Otto; Luana Stanescu

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Pediatric chest radiographs: common and less common errors.

September 7, 2016

Menashe SJ, Iyer RS, Parisi MT, et al. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2016;207(4):903-911.

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This commentary reviews nine cases involving interpretation errors associated with chest radiographs of children to illustrate common mistakes that can occur in pediatric imaging. Each case concludes with a clinical teaching point for practice improvement.

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