[Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with reverse ventilation/perfusion mismatch; a case report].
Generally, non-ventilated segments are not perfused on lung scans (V/Q match). Now we report a very rare case with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis whose scintigraphy shows the decreased ventilation, but well perfused (reverse V/Q mismatch).
Watanabe
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N
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine.
Inoue
T
T
Oriuchi
N
N
Tateno
M
M
Hirano
T
T
Tomiyoshi
K
K
Endo
K
K
Sasaki
Y
Y
Inagaki
M
M
Michimata
H
H
D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011649:Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio