Church tower sign

The church tower sign on an ap x-ray of a child with pseudo croup.

The steeple sign ( engl. Steeple sign ) is a radiological mark having a subglottic constriction of the trachea pointing to an AP radiograph. It is typical of subglottic laryngotracheobronchitis ( pseudocroup ).

literature

• M. Salour: The steeple sign. In: Radiology. Volume 216, Number 2, August 2000, pp. 428-429, ISSN  0033-8419 . PMID 10924564 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralph Weissleder, Mark J. Rieumont, Jack Wittenberg and S. Puig: Compendium of diagnostic imaging. Springer, 2002, ISBN 3-211-83615-2 , p. 635. ( View at Google Books. )