Subpleural pulmonary bullae

Dr Bruno Di Muzio ◈ and Dr Yuranga Weerakkody ◉ et al.

Subpleural pulmonary bullae are a location-specific descriptive term to describe pulmonary bullae occurring in subpleural locations. Many are considered to represent regions of paraseptal emphysema where the emphysematous spaces are greater than 1cm in diameter ¹. They may or may not contain septations ³.

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Article information

rID: 26607

System: Chest

Synonyms or Alternate Spellings:

Subpleural bullae
Sub-pleural bullae
Subpleural bullus
Subpleural lung bullae
Subpleural pulmonary bullus
Sub-pleural lung bullae
Subpleural lung bullus

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Case 2: with paraseptal emphysemaCase 2: with paraseptal emphysema

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