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Authors' response to assessment of intraparenchymal lung collateral ventilation
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- Collateral ventilation
- bronchoscopic lung volume reduction
- interlobar fissures
- COPD pathology
- imaging/CT MRI etc
- lung physiology
We thank the writers of the letter1 for their interest and agree that the potential placement of this novel imaging method in the planning of patient treatment, such as bronchoscopic and surgical lung volume reduction, is not yet determined.
The example of collateral ventilation shown in figure …
Footnotes
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Competing interests None.
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Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by South Yorkshire REC (REC reference: 10/H1310/11).
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.