Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis. State-of-the-art review

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Ferreira Francisco, Flávia Angélica ^a   Pereira E Silva, Jorge Luiz ^b   Hochhegger, Bruno ^a   Zanetti, Gláucia ^a   Marchiori, Edson ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Congenital diseases; Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis; Pulmonary diseases

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; ETIDRONIC ACID; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HYDROXYAPATITE; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PHOSPHATE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM PHOSPHATE COTRANSPORTER 2B; ZINC;

ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COR PULMONALE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY ALVEOLAR MICROLITHIASIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SODIUM-PHOSPHATE COTRANSPORTER PROTEINS, TYPE IIB; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871374364     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.10.014     Document Type: Review

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