CT of the Airways

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boiselle, Phillip M. (Editor), Lynch, David A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Contemporary Medical Imaging
• Subjects: Medicine.; Allergy.; Radiology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Thoracic surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Imaging / Radiology.; Thoracic Surgery.; Allergology.

This book provides an authoritative resource on the art of CT in the diagnosis and monitoring of pulmonary disease. Exploiting recent technological advances in MDCT and 3-D rendering, CT of the Airways contains over 350 high impact figures illustrating relevant findings of necessity to the radiologi...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory
• Airway Anatomy and Physiology
• Radiologic Anatomy of the Airways
• Pathology of the Airways
• Anatomical Airway Imaging Methods
• Functional Airway Imaging Methods
• Large Airways
• Tracheobronchial Stenoses
• Tracheal and Bronchial Neoplasms
• Tracheobronchomalacia
• Bronchiectasis
• Small Airways
• Asthma
• Infectious Small Airways Diseases and Aspiration Bronchiolitis
• Noninfectious Inflammatory Small Airways Diseases
• Obliterative Bronchiolitis
• Smoking-Related Small Airways and Interstitial Lung Disease
• Small Airways
• Large Airways
• Computed Tomography of Pediatric Small Airways Disease.