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A case of airway aluminosis with likely secondary pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis

BACKGROUND: Excessive inhalation of aluminium powder occasionally results in upper lobe predominant lung fibrosis, which is similar to idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) and has been suggested to be secondary PPFE. CASE PRESENTATION: A 67-year-old man who had worked in an aluminum-p...

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Autores principales: Yabuuchi, Yuki, Goto, Hitomi, Nonaka, Mizu, Tachi, Hiroaki, Akiyama, Tatsuya, Arai, Naoki, Ishikawa, Hiroaki, Hyodo, Kentaro, Nemoto, Kenji, Miura, Yukiko, Hase, Isano, Oh-ishi, Shuji, Hayashihara, Kenji, Saito, Takefumi, Chonan, Tatsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40248-019-0177-4