[Differential diagnosis of bronchiectasis: high-resolution CT as a valuable aide].
Bronchiectasis is defined as localized irreversible dilatation of the bronchial tree. Brochiectasis has been associated with a wide variety of causes, but it is mostly caused by acute, chronic or recurrent infections. This paper should give a review about the manifestation of bronchiectasis and bronchioloectasis in HR-CT and discuss the causing entities. However, integration of bronchiectasis and other HR-CT findings may enable a narrower differential diagnosis, in some cases it is possible to give the correct diagnose directly.
Heckmann
Martina
M
Klinik für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany. ramhec@uniklinik-saarland.de
Uder
Michael
M
Kramann
Bernhard
B
Heinrich
Marc
M
D001987:Bronchiectasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*