Tags: Disease.

Pulmonary interstitial emphysema (PIE) is a collection of air outside of the normal air passages in the body and instead is found inside the connective tissue of the peribronchovascular sheaths interlobular septa and visceral pleura. (This supportive tissue is called the pulmonary interstitium.) This collection of air develops as a result of alveolar and terminal bronchiolar rupture.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Pulmonary interstitial emphysema"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.