Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis with mineralizing pulmonary elastosis: A case report

INTRODUCTION: Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis characterized by repeated episodes of intra-alveolar haemorrhage is rare in adults and has a relatively benign course compared to cases seen in children. CASE PRESENTATION: The case presented here is of an adult man with idiopathic pulmonary haemosid...

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Autores principales: Bal, Amanjit, Bhalla, Ashish, Joshi, Kusum
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18304327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-65
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis characterized by repeated episodes of intra-alveolar haemorrhage is rare in adults and has a relatively benign course compared to cases seen in children. CASE PRESENTATION: The case presented here is of an adult man with idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis with mineralizing pulmonary elastosis. CONCLUSION: Pathologists are generally not familiar with this histologic reaction pattern associated with iron encrustation of pulmonary elastic tissue.

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