Discussion
Diagnosis With Brief Discussion
- Diagnosis
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Radiologic Findings
- Chest PA shows pericardiac consolidations in both lungs.
Lung setting images of the chest CT images show multisegmental ground-glass attenuation with internal interlobular septal thickening in the subpleural or peribronchial portion of both lungs.
On the basis of CT findings, pulmonary alveolar proteninosis is highly suspected. So bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage were done. There was turbid fluid material with strongly positive PAS stain in the anterior segment of right upper lobe, consistent with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis(Fig 1). There was irregular elevated mucosal lesion in the posterior wall of left upper lobar brochus. Endobronchial biopsy confirmed the lesion as squamous cell carcinoma(Fig 2), which was not found on chest CT scan. LUL lobecotmy was done.
Fig 1
Fig 2
- Brief Review
- Please refer to
Case 198, Case 275, Case 404, Case 505, Case 525, -
- References
- Keywords
- Lung, Metabolic and storage lung disesae,