Mucus plugs and bronchial wall thickening on three-dimensional computed tomography in patients with unexplained chronic cough whose sputum yielded filamentous Basidiomycetes

This study was conducted in order to identify imaging features on three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) of unexplained chronic cough (UCC) patients with positive sputum cultures for filamentous Basidiomycetes (f-BM). UCC outpatients who had been given various questionnaires for cough, pulmonary function tests, and fungal cultures of sputum were evaluated. Multidetector row CT (MDCT) was performed for three-dimensional CT analysis of the...