Diffuse lung disease in neurofibromatosis.
Prevalence, characteristics and the very existence of neurofibromatosis-associated diffuse lung disease remain unclear, mostly because the few studies that looked at pulmonary involvement in such patients used chest X-ray as diagnostic mean. We report on the clinical, functional and HRCT findings in a patient with neurofibromatosis-associated diffuse lung disease and provide a short literature review.
Thoracic Endoscopy and Pulmonology Unit, Maggiore Hospital, Largo Nigrisoli 2, 40133 Bologna, Italy. rocco.trisolini@ausl.bologna.it
Rocco
R
Trisolini
Vanina
V
Livi
Luigi
L
Lazzari Agli
Marco
M
Patelli
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D017253:Neurofibromatoses / Q000150:complications*; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed