title: Imaging of Diseases of the Large Airways.
abstract: Imaging of the large airways is key to the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of congenital, infectious, malignant, and inflammatory diseases. Involvement can be focal, regional, or diffuse, and abnormalities can take the form of masses, thickening, narrowing, enlargement, or a combination of patterns. Recognition of the typical morphologies, locations, and distributions of large airways disease is central to an accurate imaging differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine, Clinic Building A, 1365 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. Electronic address: brent.p.little@emory.edu.
authors.forename: Brent P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Little
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine, Clinic Building A, 1365 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
authors.forename: Phuong-Anh T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Duong
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007830:Larynx / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Bronchiectasis; CT of airways; Imaging of large airways; Tracheal imaging