Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis
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Eighteen cases have been reported in the literature, but the diagnosis was established during life in eight cases only. To our knowledge, the two cases we report are the nineteenth and twentieth. Among these 18 cases it has been noticed that 11 were in men and seven in women. The youngest patient reported was 6 years old, but the average age was between 30 and 50 years. Diagnosis was made at necropsy in 10 of the 18 cases, by pulmonary biopsy in four, and radiologically and clinically in four. A familial incidence has been noticed in some instances. Mikhailov (1954) reported the disease in two brothers and in the son of one of them; the diagnosis was verified by lung biopsy in one of them, but the other two showed similar radiographic pictures. Our two cases are brothers aged 30 and 35, and the diagnosis was confirmed during life by examining a biopsy obtained from the lung of one of them.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004