Anatom3DLeft anterior basal bronchopulmonary segment
Segmentum basale anterius pulmonis sinistri (S VIII) · Levý přední bazální bronchopulmonální segment
Veins
Looks like
A segment of the lower lobe (S8) at the front of the lung base, above the diaphragm.
What it does
Gas exchange in the front lower lung.
Keeping it well
Pneumonia after aspiration in upright people often settles in the basal segments. Mostly a landmark for locating disease on CT.
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
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- COPD
- COVID-19
- Cystic fibrosis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- 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
- Varicose veins
- Whooping cough