Large airways disorders, defined as disorders involving the trachea, main bronchi, lobar
bronchi, or segmental bronchi as small as 3 mm, 1, 2 are extremely common and …

OBJECTIVE. Recent technical advances, including the routine use of CT thin sections and
techniques such as 2D minimum-intensity-projection and 3D volume images, have …

More than 10 million airway branches exist in the normal human lung. Radiographic
visualization is< 1% of this total. Many diseases affect the airways, each pathologic insult …

This chapter will discuss the disease definition, clinical presentation, abnormal physiology,
pathology, and medical imaging observations in the diagnosis of asthma, bronchitis …

High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) plays a vital role in detecting and classifying
small airways disease. HRCT provides a detailed assessment of the lung parenchyma and …

This article comprehensively reviews and illustrates the imaging features of small airway
diseases. The authors discuss the imaging findings of small airway diseases in general and …

Small airways diseases, or bronchiolitis, is a broad term encompassing numerous diseases
that cause bronchiolar inflammation or fibrosis. Bronchioles are small airways located at the …

Patients with disease of the large airways usually present with nonspecific signs and
symptoms such as cough, dyspnea, stridor, and hemoptysis. Although chest radiography is …

Diagnostic imaging of the central airways has evolved from being the blind spot in the chest
radiograph to involving complex imaging techniques in a region of great pathologic diversity …

Discussion Patients with tracheal abnormalities are frequently misdiagnosed with other
obstructive lung diseases such as asthma or emphysema, due to the clinical overlap in …