Primary pulmonary nodular amyloidosis.
Primary nodular amyloidosis of the lung is an uncommon manifestation. The disease runs a benign course, but offers diagnostic problems due to non-specific radiological features entering the big field of the solitary nodule. We describe the case of a 60 year old man with multiple nodules on the left lung operated on diagnostic and therapeutic video-assisted thoracoscopy and discuss the possibilities, if any, of suspecting such a disease through radiologic characteristics along with findings from the patient's history, physical examination and laboratory tests.
Agresta
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Dept of General Surgery, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto, Presidio Ospedaliero di Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy. fagresta@libero.it
Marin
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A
Della Libera
D
D
Romanzi
F
F
Ciardo
L F
LF
Bittesini
L
L
Nardini
S
S
Bedin
N
N
D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed