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How are bronchiectasis and emphysema different?
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Copd bronchiectasis: In emphysema the damage is in the alveoli in bronchiiectasis is in the small airways.
Answered 7/7/2018
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See below : Bronchiectasis is an abnormal dilation of the airways and emphysema is a destruction of the alveoli (air sacs)
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