Tracheal dimensions in human fetuses: an anatomical, digital and statistical study

Abstract

The tracheal parameters do not show male-female differences. The developmental dynamics of prebifurcation and bifurcation lengths and proximal and distal external transverse diameters of the trachea follow linear functions dependent on the natural logarithm of fetal age, its external cross-sectional area-according to a linear function, and its external volume-according to a quadratic function.