High-resolution computed tomography of the lungs: the borderlands of normality
- 16 December 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Radiology
- Vol. 16 (4) , 771-780
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-005-0040-1
Abstract
High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is now widely used in the assessment of airways and diffuse lung disease. Considerable literature on pathologic correlation has increased the understanding of the signs of disease seen on HRCT. However, neither the significance of subtle individual signs nor the spectrum of HRCT appearances in healthy lungs is well documented. HRCT signs that cause diagnostic uncertainty and the spectrum of findings that exist between definite normality and definite abnormality are discussed.Keywords
This publication has 61 references indexed in Scilit:
- Smoking-Related Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease: HRCT-Pathologic CorrelationSeminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2003
- Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging: past, present and futureEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2002
- HIGH-RESOLUTION CT: Normal Anatomy, Techniques, and PitfallsRadiologic Clinics of North America, 2001
- Thin-Section CT Evidence of Bronchial Thickening in Children with Stable AsthmaAcademic Radiology, 2001
- Emphysematous lesions and lung function in healthy smokers 60 years of ageRespiratory Medicine, 2000
- Imaging the ‘Dirty lung’ — has high resolution computed tomography cleared the smoke?Clinical Radiology, 1998
- Normal Bronchial and Pulmonary Arterial Diameters Measured by Thin Section CTJournal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 1995
- Computed Tomography Assessment of Ground-Glass OpacityJournal of Thoracic Imaging, 1993
- Computed tomography of the pulmonary parenchyma. Part 2Journal of Thoracic Imaging, 1985
- The morphology of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and bronchiectasis: definition, nomenclature, and classification.Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1979