lower lobe bronchiectasis
The clothes
maketh the sign. Coronal reconstructed CT in a 63-year-old woman with a chronic cough due to bronchiectasis and mycobacterium avium complex infection. CT demonstrates branching dilated airways filled with inspissated mucus resemble fingers in a glove (inset)
The distribution of bronchiectasis can help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Lower lobe bronchiectasis is the commonest zonal predilection in bronchiectasis . It is mostly idiopathic but can be typically seen in
- post infective bronchiectasis
- recurrent childhood infections
- aspiration
- in association with immunodeficiency
- primary ciliary dyskinesia
- as a sequelae of bronchiolitis obliterans in the setting of posttransplantation rejection
See also
Siehe auch:
Assoziationen und Differentialdiagnosen zu lower lobe bronchiectasis: