TY  - JOUR
A1  - ,  
T1  - Prevalence of main bronchial diverticula in a general European population
JO  - Eur. J. Anat.
SN  - 1136-4890
Y1  - 2014
VL  - 18
SP  - 60
EP  - 62
UR  - http://www.eurjanat.com/web/paper.php?id=130006jg
KW  - Main bronchial diverticula
KW  - Computed tomography
KW  - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
N2  - With the technical development of multislice computed tomography (CT), main bronchial diverticula are now a common finding on imaging. Data from three larger studies from Japan and a highly selected patient sample from Europe (lung cancer screening) showed prevalences exceeding 40%. The generalizability to a more general European patient population is   unclear. For this purpose a set of 80 thoracic chest CT scans was retrospectively studied. Prevalence of main bronchial diverticula in our sample was 21.25% and a significant correlation with emphysema was found (p<0.01).
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