Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques

Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare disease. Herein we report a case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis who was suspected to have the disease on chest X-ray and was confirmed on high resolution CT and transbronchial lung biopsy. These investigations showed characteristic features of...

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Autores principales: Malhotra, Balbir, Sabharwal, Raghu, Singh, Mandeep, Singh, Amarjeet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139727
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71967
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author Malhotra, Balbir
Sabharwal, Raghu
Singh, Mandeep
Singh, Amarjeet
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description Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare disease. Herein we report a case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis who was suspected to have the disease on chest X-ray and was confirmed on high resolution CT and transbronchial lung biopsy. These investigations showed characteristic features of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.
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spelling pubmed-29881812010-12-07 Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques Malhotra, Balbir Sabharwal, Raghu Singh, Mandeep Singh, Amarjeet Lung India Case Report Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare disease. Herein we report a case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis who was suspected to have the disease on chest X-ray and was confirmed on high resolution CT and transbronchial lung biopsy. These investigations showed characteristic features of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2988181/ /pubmed/21139727 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71967 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Malhotra, Balbir
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Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques
title Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques
title_full Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques
title_fullStr Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques
title_short Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques
title_sort pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with calcified pleural plaques
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139727
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71967
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