Bullous Lung disease
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Bullous lung disease or bullous emphysema?
Bullous lung disease is an entity characterized by the presence of bullae in one or both the lung fields, with normal intervening lung.1,2 On the other hand, bullous emphysema is the presence of bullae in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and is characterized by the presence of centrilobular emphysema in the nonbullous lung.3–5 To select patients who are more likely t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2325-9205
DOI: 10.12746/swrccc2013.0102.020