Comprehensive Imaging-Guided Optimization of the Surgical Management of Patients with Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis

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Aiping Chen Fatima-Zohra Mokrane Laurent Dercle

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Laurent Dercle
Department of Radiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA

A B S T R A C T

Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare lung disease with poor prognosis. The only effective treatment to date, is lung transplantation in the severest cases. However, the etiology of PAM has been recently deciphered, and the treatment paradigm is shifting. We report a case of PAM and propose an optimized imaging-guided management based on the current state of the art.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 13, Apr 2020
Accepted: Mon 27, Apr 2020
Published: Mon 04, May 2020

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© 2023 Laurent Dercle. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.05.01