With around 500 cases published worldwide, pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is a rare disorder with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. We show for the first time that homozygous deletions encompassing the entire SCL34A2 can be associated with this rare genetic pulmonary disease.

Radiol Bras. 2015 Set/Out;48(5):IX–X In previous issue of Radiologia Brasileira, readers can find a very interesting article published by Francisco et al. about pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM). The authors describe the highresolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings in chest exams of 13 patients with PAM, independently evaluated by two observers. According to the authors, diagnoses o...

Image simulation remains under-exploited for the most widely used biological phase microscopy methods, because of difficulties in simulating partially coherent illumination. We describe an open-source toolbox, microlith (https://code.google.com/p/microlith), which accurately predicts three-dimensional images of a thin specimen observed with any partially coherent imaging system, as well as imag...