[Rare pulmonary (alveolar) diseases--clinico-morphological and etiopathogenic aspects].
Bearing in mind the exceptional rarity of the following three pulmonary diseases: pulmonal microlythiasis, proteinosis and primary idiopathic amyloidosis, a review of the latest publications in the international scientifical literature about their ethiology and pathogenesis has been made. In this context, the latest data concerning the role of pulmonary surfactant in their pathogenesis has been outlined. The description and re-iteration of the scanty information available about these conditions will expand the knowledge of specialists in pulmology and of general practitioners in particular who are the first to encounter these particularly seldom occurring, and for this reason insufficiently investigated, diseases. The new reports regarding the structure, production and recycling of pulmonary surfactant clarify to a certain extent the ethiology and pathogenesis of the diseases looked upon not long ago as conditions of unsettled ethiology.
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D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology*; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants
D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants