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  • Title: [Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis].
    Author: Gubbawy H.
    Journal: Pneumologie; 2001 Mar; 55(3):149-51. PubMed ID: 11293850.
    Abstract:
    Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is a rare disease of unknown aetiology, in which calcium phosphate microliths are deposited bilaterally throughout the lung parenchyma. The total number of reported cases is about 400. A case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is presented in a 50-year old man for whom the diagnosis was confirmed by histology via transbronchial biopsy. During a 4-year observation period there was no increase of the disease according to x-ray investigations and with respect to clinical symptoms.
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