Central airway and peripheral lung structures in airway disease-dominant COPD

The concept that the small airway is a primary pathological site for all COPD phenotypes has been challenged by recent findings that the disease starts from the central airways in COPD subgroups and that a smaller central airway tree increases COPD risk. This study aimed to examine whether the compu...

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Main Authors: Naoya Tanabe, Kaoruko Shimizu, Kunihiko Terada, Susumu Sato, Masaru Suzuki, Hiroshi Shima, Akira Oguma, Tsuyoshi Oguma, Satoshi Konno, Masaharu Nishimura, Toyohiro Hirai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Respiratory Society 2021-03-01
Series:ERJ Open Research
Online Access:http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/1/00672-2020.full