Non-expandable lung

Last revised by Henry Knipe on 18 Jan 2023

Citation, DOI, disclosures and article data

Citation:

Weerakkody Y, Knipe H, Non-expandable lung. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 04 May 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-160387

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-160387

Permalink:

https://radiopaedia.org/articles/160387

rID:

160387

Article created:

16 Jan 2023, Yuranga Weerakkody ◉

Disclosures:

At the time the article was created Yuranga Weerakkody had no financial relationships to ineligible companies to disclose.

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Last revised:

18 Jan 2023, Henry Knipe ◉

Disclosures:

At the time the article was last revised Henry Knipe had the following disclosures:

Integral Diagnostics, Shareholder (ongoing)
Micro-X Ltd, Shareholder (ongoing)

These were assessed during peer review and were determined to not be relevant to the changes that were made.

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Revisions:

3 times, by 2 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

Systems:

Chest

Tags:

cases, case3, overview

Synonyms:

Unexpandable lung
Non-expandable lungs
Unexpandable lungs

Non-expandable lung results from failure of the lung to re-expand even despite a therapeutic measure such as insertion of a chest tube. This can include two semantically similar but slightly different terms:

trapped lung: non-expandable lung due to remote / prior pleural inflammation
lung entrapment: non-expandable lung due to active pleural inflammation (infection / tumor)

Non-expandable lung can also result from an obstructing endobronchial lesion leading to the distal lobar collapse ³.