A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy

Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is a rare disease characterized by accumulating intraalveolar small calcium phosphate stones. The disease is slow and does not show any signs in the early stages, but the shortness of breath, cough, and right heart failure may develop as it progresses. Methylene dip...

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Autores principales: Şen, Ahmet Eren, Şahin, Özlem, Aydın, Zeynep, Kaya, Buğra, Erol, Çağlagül
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35771040
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2021.80775
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author Şen, Ahmet Eren
Şahin, Özlem
Aydın, Zeynep
Kaya, Buğra
Erol, Çağlagül
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Şahin, Özlem
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Kaya, Buğra
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description Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is a rare disease characterized by accumulating intraalveolar small calcium phosphate stones. The disease is slow and does not show any signs in the early stages, but the shortness of breath, cough, and right heart failure may develop as it progresses. Methylene diphosphonate used in bone scintigraphy shows high uptake of calcium deposits in the alveoli and causes diffuse increased radiopharmaceutical uptake in the lungs.
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spelling pubmed-92463082022-07-13 A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy Şen, Ahmet Eren Şahin, Özlem Aydın, Zeynep Kaya, Buğra Erol, Çağlagül Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther Interesting Image Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is a rare disease characterized by accumulating intraalveolar small calcium phosphate stones. The disease is slow and does not show any signs in the early stages, but the shortness of breath, cough, and right heart failure may develop as it progresses. Methylene diphosphonate used in bone scintigraphy shows high uptake of calcium deposits in the alveoli and causes diffuse increased radiopharmaceutical uptake in the lungs. Galenos Publishing 2022-06 2022-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9246308/ /pubmed/35771040 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2021.80775 Text en ©Copyright 2022 by Turkish Society of Nuclear Medicine | Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy published by Galenos Yayınevi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/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.
spellingShingle Interesting Image
Şen, Ahmet Eren
Şahin, Özlem
Aydın, Zeynep
Kaya, Buğra
Erol, Çağlagül
A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy
title A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy
title_full A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy
title_short A Rare Case of Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis with Diffuse Lung Uptake on Bone Scintigraphy
title_sort rare case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with diffuse lung uptake on bone scintigraphy
topic Interesting Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35771040
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2021.80775
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