title: Imaging of Large Airways Disorders.
abstract: 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 increased our ability to detect large airways diseases. Furthermore, dedicated CT protocols allow the evaluation of dynamic airway dysfunction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With diseases of the large airways more commonly seen in daily practice, it is important that radiologists be familiar with the appearances, differential diagnosis, and clinical implications of these entities.
authors.affiliation: 1 All authors: Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215.
authors.forename: Benedikt H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Heidinger
authors.affiliation: 1 All authors: Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215.
authors.forename: Mariaelena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Occhipinti
authors.affiliation: 1 All authors: Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215.
authors.forename: Ronald L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.affiliation: 1 All authors: Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215.
authors.forename: Alexander A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Bankier
mesh_terms: D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology
keywords: CT; chest radiography; large airways disorders; tracheobronchomalacia