| Autor: |
Esteban MB; Servicio de Cirugía General y del Aparato Digestivo, Servicio de Cirugía Torácica, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, España. drbruna@comv.es, Obrer AA, Martínez AH, Guerrero ME, Armengod AC |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Zdroj: |
Cirugia espanola [Cir Esp] 2007 Jan; Vol. 81 (1), pp. 43-5. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/s0009-739x(07)71256-3 |
| Abstrakt: |
Amyloidosis is a systemic disease caused by extracellular accumulation of amyloid in different parts of the body. Pulmonary involvement is infrequent and nodular amyloidosis is extremely rare. We present the case of a 72-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in whom a 3-cm pulmonary nodule was discovered during routine radiological follow-up. After various complementary investigations failed to identify the etiology of the nodule, surgical excision was performed. Subsequent histopathological study revealed the presence of amyloid deposits with characteristic apple-green birefringence when stained with Congo-red under polarized light microscopy. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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