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Bronchiectasis chest x ray
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Although the chest x-ray is not used for diagnosing bronchiectasis, it can be used for patients with respiratory symptoms who are suspected in having any of the differential diagnoses.
Bronchiectasis Chest X-ray
Bronchiectasis Chest X-ray
The chest x-ray findings for bronchiectasis are as follows:[1]
- The chest x-ray is not sensitive for diagnosing bronchiectasis
- Recommended for the differential diagnosis of the patient with respiratory symptoms
- With severe bronchiectasis, the x-ray will show dilation of large airways
- Characterized by thickening of the peribronchovascular interstitium
- In obstructive disease, the x-ray will show lung hyperinflation and is characterized by
- Increase in the lung volume
- Increase in the intercostal spaces
- Flattening of the diaphragmatic domes
- Accentuation of the retrosternal space
- Presence of the air below the inferior border of the heart
X-ray
References
References
- ↑ O’Donnell, Anne E. (2008). “Bronchiectasis”. Chest. 134 (4): 815–823. doi:10.1378/chest.08-0776. ISSN 0012-3692.
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Hamid Qazi, MD, BSc [2], Saarah T. Alkhairy, M.D.