Monawat Ngerncham1, Edward Y Lee2, David Zurakowski3, Donald A Tracy4, Russell Jennings5. 1. Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, 2 Wanglang Road, Bangkoknoi, Bangkok 10700, Thailand. 2. Departments of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 3. Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 4. Department of Radiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA. 5. Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: russell.jennings@childrens.harvard.edu.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Diagnostic laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy (DLB) has been the traditional preoperative diagnostic modality for evaluating presence and severity of tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), and requires anesthesia. Alternatively, multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is potentially a noninvasive modality that provides high-resolution, 3-dimensional (3D) imaging of the thorax providing preoperative guidance for pediatric surgeons. This study compares MDCT with intraoperative DLB in the assessment of TBM in symptomatic pediatric patients with esophageal atresia (EA). METHODS: Following IRB approval all pediatric patients (≤18 years) who had EA and who underwent an MDCT study as a preoperative evaluation of TBM prior to aortopexy were retrospectively reviewed. Patients with incomplete reports on intraoperative DLB or MDCT studies were excluded. Two pediatric radiologists independently evaluated all MDCT studies in a blinded fashion. On both DLB and MDCT studies, TBM was scored as present or absent in five anatomic segments: upper, middle, and lower trachea, as well as right and left main stem bronchi. Operative reports including DLB findings were reviewed and compared to findings from MDCT study using the chance corrected kappa (κ) coefficient. Diagnostic accuracy of dynamic MDCT for detecting TBM was determined by sensitivity and specificity, and interobserver agreement between two radiology reviewers was measured by the kappa statistic. RESULTS: The final study population included 18 patients (8 males and 10 females) with ages ranging from 1month to 11years (median: 7 months). Their presenting clinical symptoms included apneic spells (n=15, 83%) and failure to extubate (n=3, 17%). The overall diagnostic accuracy of dynamic airway MDCT compared to DLB was 91% (82/90 possible segments for TBM) with excellent overall agreement across all 5 anatomic segments (κ=0.82, p<0.001). The agreements for upper, mid, lower trachea, and right and left trachea were 89% (κ=0.73, p<0.001), 94% (κ=0.85, p<0.001), 89% (κ=0.76, p<0.001), 94% (κ=0.82, p<0.001), and 89% (κ=0.61, p=0.005); respectively. Interobserver agreement between two radiologists was excellent (κ=0.98, 95% confidence interval: 0.94-1.00, p<0.001) with only 1 disagreement between two radiologists that was found for the left main bronchus. Fifteen (83.3%) of the patients clinically improved after the aortopexy. CONCLUSION: MDCT with 3D imaging is a highly accurate and reliable preoperative noninvasive imaging modality for evaluating TBM in pediatric patients with EA providing anatomic information consistent with and complimentary to bronchoscopy.
PURPOSE: Diagnostic laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy (DLB) has been the traditional preoperative diagnostic modality for evaluating presence and severity of tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), and requires anesthesia. Alternatively, multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is potentially a noninvasive modality that provides high-resolution, 3-dimensional (3D) imaging of the thorax providing preoperative guidance for pediatric surgeons. This study compares MDCT with intraoperative DLB in the assessment of TBM in symptomatic pediatric patients with esophageal atresia (EA). METHODS: Following IRB approval all pediatric patients (≤18 years) who had EA and who underwent an MDCT study as a preoperative evaluation of TBM prior to aortopexy were retrospectively reviewed. Patients with incomplete reports on intraoperative DLB or MDCT studies were excluded. Two pediatric radiologists independently evaluated all MDCT studies in a blinded fashion. On both DLB and MDCT studies, TBM was scored as present or absent in five anatomic segments: upper, middle, and lower trachea, as well as right and left main stem bronchi. Operative reports including DLB findings were reviewed and compared to findings from MDCT study using the chance corrected kappa (κ) coefficient. Diagnostic accuracy of dynamic MDCT for detecting TBM was determined by sensitivity and specificity, and interobserver agreement between two radiology reviewers was measured by the kappa statistic. RESULTS: The final study population included 18 patients (8 males and 10 females) with ages ranging from 1month to 11years (median: 7 months). Their presenting clinical symptoms included apneic spells (n=15, 83%) and failure to extubate (n=3, 17%). The overall diagnostic accuracy of dynamic airway MDCT compared to DLB was 91% (82/90 possible segments for TBM) with excellent overall agreement across all 5 anatomic segments (κ=0.82, p<0.001). The agreements for upper, mid, lower trachea, and right and left trachea were 89% (κ=0.73, p<0.001), 94% (κ=0.85, p<0.001), 89% (κ=0.76, p<0.001), 94% (κ=0.82, p<0.001), and 89% (κ=0.61, p=0.005); respectively. Interobserver agreement between two radiologists was excellent (κ=0.98, 95% confidence interval: 0.94-1.00, p<0.001) with only 1 disagreement between two radiologists that was found for the left main bronchus. Fifteen (83.3%) of the patients clinically improved after the aortopexy. CONCLUSION: MDCT with 3D imaging is a highly accurate and reliable preoperative noninvasive imaging modality for evaluating TBM in pediatric patients with EA providing anatomic information consistent with and complimentary to bronchoscopy.
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