Uncommon causes of tracheobronchial stenosis and wall thickening: MDCT imaging.
Some uncommon diseases may involve the central airways focally or diffusely. These include Wegener's granulomatosis, relapsing polychondritis, tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica, amyloidosis, papillomatosis, rhinoscleroma, sarcoidosis and tuberculosis. Related computed tomography (CT) findings essentially include calcifications, luminal stenosis, wall thickening and nodules. The purpose of this paper is to help refine the differential diagnosis among these diseases through the use of multidetector CT (MDCT) imaging.
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Sezione diagnostica per immagini, Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche, Via Gramsci 14, Parma, Italy. annaingegnoli@yahoo.it
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D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology