Cystic amyloidosis or lymphoid interstitial pneumonia associated with amyloidosis? A diagnostic challenge

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1041-1042

  Marchiori, Edson ^a   Zanetti, Glucia ^a   Hocchegger, Bruno ^a   Irion, Klaus Loureiro ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC PULMONARY AMYLOIDOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LETTER; LUNG CYST; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

AMYLOIDOSIS; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES;

EID: 84865221333     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.12.006     Document Type: Letter

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