High-resolution CT of peripheral airways diseases

Radiol Clin North Am. 2002 Jan;40(1):21-9. doi: 10.1016/s0033-8389(03)00106-4.

Abstract

Bronchiolitis and bronchiolectasis are nonspecific inflammatory processes of the small airways that have a variable, but often characteristic, appearance on HRCT. Familiarity with the imaging features of these disorders is crucial in rendering an accurate radiographic diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Asthma / diagnostic imaging
  • Asthma / pathology
  • Asthma / physiopathology
  • Bronchiolitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchiolitis / etiology
  • Bronchiolitis / pathology
  • Bronchiolitis / physiopathology
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / pathology
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / physiopathology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / diagnostic imaging
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Diseases / pathology
  • Lung Diseases / physiopathology
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / pathology
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / physiopathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prognosis
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Smoking / adverse effects
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*