IMAGING OF ASTHMA AND ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY MYCOSIS

In patients with asthma, the radiologist must be challenged to find di seases that can mimic this disease and to identify complications of as thma, particularly allergic bronchopulmonary mycosis. Diseases that: m ay mimic asthma include vocal cord dysfunction, tracheobronchial steno sis, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Allergic bronchopulmonary mycos is is usually, though not always, associated with central bronchiectas is. Salient radiologic findings in asthma include bronchial wall thick ening and air-trapping.