Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis: Radiographic and scintigraphic correlation

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-251

  Shah, Tanmaya C ^a,b   Talwar, Arunabh ^a   Shah, Rakesh D ^a   Margouleff, Donald ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Black pleural line; Bone scintigraphy; Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; STONE FORMATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE;

EID: 33847179071     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000255251.87023.a0     Document Type: Article

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