Filomena Carfagnini, Donatella Vivacqua, Michelangelo Baldazzi, Laura Marcolin, Stefano Giusto Picchi, Giulia Lassandro, Igino Simonetti, Piero Trovato, Giuliana Giacobbe, Antonio Corvino, Laura Greco
PURPOSE: Congenital lung malformations (CLMs) consist of a variety of pulmonary development disorders. In the CLM approach, computed tomography (CT) is considered the gold standard imaging technique due to the high-resolution for the lung parenchyma evaluation, the study of the vascular system after contrast injection, and the multiplanar reconstructions. In the paediatric population CT is considered too invasive due to ionizing radiation and the use of contrast agent. Therefore, the indications for the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are increasing...
2023: Polish Journal of Radiology