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[Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with reverse ventilation/perfusion mismatch; a case report]
N Watanabe1, T Inoue, N Oriuchi
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine.
Kaku Igaku. the Japanese Journal of Nuclear Medicine
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
Generally, non-ventilated segments are not perfused on lung scans (V/Q match). Now we report a very rare case with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis whose scintigraphy shows the decreased ventilation, but well perfused (reverse V/Q mismatch).