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Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis in childhood: diagnosis by transbronchial biopsy
C Wallis1, B Whitehead, M Malone
1Respiratory Medicine Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK.
Pediatric Pulmonology
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 7-year-old girl of Arabic origin by consanguineous parents presented with a miliary pattern on chest x-ray. Transbronchial lung biopsy revealed a histological diagnosis of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis, a condition rarely described in childhood. This report highlights the clinical and radiological features, documents the transbronchial lung biopsy as a useful diagnostic procedure, and suggests a possible genetic etiology with autosomal recessive inheritance.