Geriatric Chest Imaging: When and How to Image the Elderly Lung, Age-Related Changes, and Common Pathologies

<table>Senile emphysema in an 88-year-old patient. Chest X-ray (on the left) and centrilobular emphysematous changes on computed tomography (on the right). Imaging was ordered because of suspected mesenterial ischemia. </table>

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Figure 2: Geriatric Chest Imaging: When and How to Image the Elderly Lung, Age-Related Changes, and Common Pathologies 