Case Report. Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis: High-Resolution CT and MR Findings
| Autor: | Shin-Ichiroh Inomata, Yuji Morita, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Shosaku Abe, Hiroyuki Koba, Hideaki Hoshino, Keizo Kurokawa, Hidenari Akiba |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty Rib cage medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Respiratory disease High resolution respiratory system medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis Parenchyma Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology Microcalcification Pulmonary alveolus medicine.symptom business Chest radiograph |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 22:245-248 |
| ISSN: | 0363-8715 |
| Popis: | We report the high-resolution CT (HRCT) and MR findings in a case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis. HRCT revealed that the black pleural line on a chest radiograph was caused not by subpleural cysts but by a fat-dense layer between ribs and the calcified parenchyma. MRI showed both lower zones with diffusely increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images. We speculated it was caused by the accumulation of small-sized calcific particles. |
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