title: Congenital abnormalities of intrathoracic airways.
abstract: Multidetector CT has broadened the potential of imaging to demonstrate anomalies of the lung and the tracheobronchial tree with increasing frequency. Two-and three-dimensional reformatting improve the understanding of complex tracheobronchial anomalies. Most congenital tracheobronchial anomalies are rare and almost always nonsymptomatic; however, some may be confused with or even responsible for respiratory disease. Tracheal and accessory cardiac bronchi are among the most frequent anomalies, but other ectopic or supernumerary lung buds, developmental tracheobronchial interruption, obstruction, or compression, communicating bronchopulmonary foregut malformations, and bronchial malformations associated with anomalies of situs can be detected, even late after birth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, University Hospital of Liège, B35 Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: Amandine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Desir
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ghaye
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001995:Bronchography; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014132:Trachea / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging