Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in a 10-year-old girl masquerading as tuberculosis

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare pulmonary disease. Diagnosis is established by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), which has macroscopic ‘milky appearance’, and in the presence of typical computed tomography, findings are diagnostic of PAP but, however, the feature of periodic acid–Schiff-p...

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Autores principales: Baro, Abhamoni, Shah, Ira, Chandane, Parmarth, Khosla, Indu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26069841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv039
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author Baro, Abhamoni
Shah, Ira
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description Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare pulmonary disease. Diagnosis is established by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), which has macroscopic ‘milky appearance’, and in the presence of typical computed tomography, findings are diagnostic of PAP but, however, the feature of periodic acid–Schiff-positive eosinophilic proteinaceous fluid raises the confidence of the diagnosis. We report late-onset PAP in a 10-year-old girl who had acid fast bacilli on an initial BAL examination, but was subsequently diagnosed as PAP.
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spelling pubmed-44557892015-06-11 Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in a 10-year-old girl masquerading as tuberculosis Baro, Abhamoni Shah, Ira Chandane, Parmarth Khosla, Indu Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare pulmonary disease. Diagnosis is established by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), which has macroscopic ‘milky appearance’, and in the presence of typical computed tomography, findings are diagnostic of PAP but, however, the feature of periodic acid–Schiff-positive eosinophilic proteinaceous fluid raises the confidence of the diagnosis. We report late-onset PAP in a 10-year-old girl who had acid fast bacilli on an initial BAL examination, but was subsequently diagnosed as PAP. Oxford University Press 2015-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4455789/ /pubmed/26069841 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv039 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv039
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