CT of airways disease and bronchiectasis

Radiol Clin North Am. 2002 Jan;40(1):1-19. doi: 10.1016/s0033-8389(03)00105-2.

Abstract

High-resolution CT is accepted as an accurate noninvasive means of diagnosing bronchiectasis. A wide spectrum of abnormalities may be identified at HRCT in patients with airway disease, including various distinctive patterns of bronchiectasis in specific clinical settings, such as ABPA, MAC infection, AIDS, and CF. Characteristic CT findings occasionally suggest a specific diagnosis that may not have been under clinical consideration. HRCT also provides significant clinical use in assessing the degree and extent of airway disease, and allows noninvasive monitoring of disease progression, regression, or response to therapy.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / diagnostic imaging
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / complications
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchial Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Bronchiectasis / complications
  • Bronchiectasis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Bronchiectasis / etiology
  • Bronchiolitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchography
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / diagnostic imaging
  • Cystic Fibrosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / complications
  • Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / diagnostic imaging
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed* / methods