[Pulmonary microlithiasis following iodine lipiodol lymphography?]

Pulmonary fibrosis with marked calcifications in an 83 year old female patient is reported. Following previously inconspicuous thoracic x-ray findings (1975 and 1978) a bipedal oil lymphography was carried out for diagnosis of a systemic malignant lymphoma. The calcifying pulmonary fibrosis was investigated with the help of tomography, computed tomography, xeroradiography and scintigraphy of the lung and the skeletal system as well as magnetic resonance imaging. A biopsy was refused by the patient. The etiological possibilities of an idiopathic disease as well as an induction by the oil contrast medium and a concomitant malignant lymphoma are discussed.