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airspace enlargement
Friday 23 December 2005
Types
simple aispace enlargement
- congenital
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- lobar overinflation
- congenital lobar emphysema
- acquired
- postpneumectomy (compensatory)
- aging lung
- starvation lung (?)
- hyperlucent lung (vanishing lung)
- Swyer-James syndrome
emphysema
- proximal acinar
- centrilobular
- centriacinar
- panacinar (panlobular)
- distal acinar (paraseptal)
airspace enlargement with fibrosis
- irregular emphysema
- fibrotic lung disease
other lesions of airspace enlargement
- bullae
- bleb
- giant bullous emphysema (placental transmogrification)
References
Non-Neoplastic Disorders of the Lower Respiratory Tract (AFIP, 2002)
