Chronic airspace disease: Review of the causes and key computed tomography findings

Kianoush Ansari-Gilani; Hamid Chalian; Negin Rassouli; Arash Bedayat; Kevin Kalisz

doi:10.4329/wjr.v12.i4.29

Chronic airspace disease: Review of the causes and key computed tomography findings

World J Radiol. 2020 Apr 28;12(4):29-47. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v12.i4.29.

Authors

Kianoush Ansari-Gilani¹, Hamid Chalian², Negin Rassouli³, Arash Bedayat⁴, Kevin Kalisz⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States. kianoush.ansarigilani@uhhospitals.org.
² Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, United States.
³ Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States.
⁴ Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, United States.

Abstract

Chronic airspace diseases are commonly encountered by chest, body or general radiologists in everyday practice. Even though there is significant overlap in the imaging findings of different causes of chronic airspace disease, some key clinical, laboratory and imaging findings can be used to guide the radiologist to the correct diagnosis. The goal of this article is to review and compare these features.

Keywords: Airspace disease; Chronic; Computed tomography; Disease; Imaging; Radiology.

Publication types

Review