Four-dimensional computed tomography in expiratory central airway collapse: Disrupting diagnostic paradigms

Expiratory central airway collapse (ECAC) is a pathologic entity that involves the excessive dynamic narrowing of the central airways during the expiratory phase of respiration. ECAC represents a diagnostic challenge for clinicians as patients present with non-specific symptoms such as dyspnea, chronic cough, and recurrent respiratory infections [1]. ECAC comprises of two distinct disorders with similar clinical manifestations but different anatomic locations of collapse: tracheobronchomalacia (…

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