title: Nodular pulmonary amyloidosis.
abstract: An elderly man had a 10-year history of multiple pulmonary nodules that he had refused to have investigated. He died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. At autopsy the nodules were shown to consist of amyloid. There was no evidence of systemic amyloidosis.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000473:pathology*; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000473:pathology; D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male