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Table 1 Airway paraments of the control and the case groups with different gestational ages

From: The upper airway parameters: the potential diagnostic clues for congenital intrathoracic lesions

   

Control group

 

Case group

GW

 

N

Means

Standard deviation

N

Means

Standard deviation

20-24

TW

76

2.608

(0.320)

14

1.786

(0.313)

 

SW

76

1.839

(0.240)

14

1.386

(0.228)

 

NW

76

1.385

(0.206)

14

1.114

(0.238)

 

LW

76

2.750

(0.447)

14

2.321

(0.473)

24-28

TW

25

2.956

(0.268)

16

2.338

(0.454)

 

SW

25

2.200

(0.367)

16

1.794

(0.307)

 

NW

25

1.672

(0.256)

16

1.494

(0.347)

 

LW

25

3.088

(0.450)

16

2.744

(0.465)

28-34

TW

27

3.489

(0.465)

11

2.800

(0.387)

 

SW

27

2.630

(0.536)

11

2.327

(0.410)

 

NW

27

1.970

(0.441)

11

1.845

(0.408)

 

LW

27

3.596

(0.653)

11

3.236

(0.484)

  1. TW tracheal width, SW width of subglottic cavity, NW the narrowest lumen width, LW width of laryngeal vestibule, GW, gestational weeks. The unit of width is millimeter, the unit of GW is week
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