Anatom3DThoracic part of tracheobronchial tree
Pars thoracica arboris tracheobronchialis · Hrudní část tracheobronchiálního stromu
Respiratory system
Looks like
The airways inside the chest: the lower windpipe below the neck and the whole bronchial tree in both lungs.
What it does
Conducts air to the lungs and clears mucus and particles.
Keeping it well
Tumours, inhaled objects and narrowing show here; CT and bronchoscopy examine it. Coughing blood needs investigation.
Related conditions
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Altitude sickness
- Asbestosis and asbestos-related disease
- Aspergillosis
- Asthma
- Breathing pattern disorder
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis & RSV
- COPD
- COVID-19
- Cystic fibrosis
- Drowning
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Hantavirus infection
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Influenza
- Legionnaires' disease
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Long COVID (post-viral syndrome)
- Lung abscess
- Lung cancer
- Measles
- Mesothelioma
- Molar pregnancy and gestational trophoblastic disease
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neuroendocrine tumours (carcinoid)
- Pleural effusion
- Pleurisy
- Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary oedema
- Respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn
- Sarcoidosis
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Tuberculosis
- Whooping cough