Emphysema (disambiguation)
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Emphysema in the broadest sense of the word is pneumatosis, that is, any abnormal accumulation of air or other gas within animal tissues. In the most common sense of the word it is, more specifically, pulmonary emphysema, which is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Types of emphysema include the following:
- Congenital lobar emphysema, enlarged air spaces in the lungs of newborns
- Cutaneous emphysema, subcutaneous emphysema (gas or air trapped in the subcutaneous layer)
- Mediastinal emphysema, pneumomediastinum (pneumatosis/emphysema of the mediastinum)
- Paraseptal emphysema, a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Peritoneal emphysema, pneumoperitoneum (pneumatosis/emphysema of the peritoneal cavity)
- Pulmonary emphysema, a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pulmonary interstitial emphysema, air trapped in the stroma (interstitium) of the lung
- Subcutaneous emphysema, gas or air trapped in the subcutaneous layer (that is, under the skin)
- Surgical emphysema
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