Eur J Anat, 18 (1): 60-62 (2014)

Prevalence of main bronchial diverticula in a general European population

Johaness Gossner

Department of Clinical Radiology, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Göttingen-Weende, Göttingen, Germany

ABSTRACT 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).

Keywords: Main bronchial diverticula, Computed tomography, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease