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What is adjacent airspace disease?
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Airspace disease: I think you are reading a part of a chest x ray interpretation. Airspace is the air bubbles at the end of the bronchial tubes. Certain problems like pneumonia, fluid accumulation from heart failure are some of the common conditions shows abnormalities in the airspace, radiologist read them as air space disease. Hope this answers your question
Answered 10/13/2014
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Description: I think you what have read that on an xray report. All it means is that next to whatever structure the were discussing has some disease.
Answered 6/11/2017
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