Case Reports
September 30, 2005
Vol. 63 No. 3 (2005): Pulmonary series
https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2005.638

Primary pulmonary nodular Amyloidosis

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Solitary pulmonary nodule, Amyloidosis, Amyloidoma, Differential diagnosis
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F. Agresta
fagresta@libero.it
Dept. of General Surgery, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy.
A. Marin
Dept. of Pneumology, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy.
D. Della Libera
Dept. of Histopathology, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Conegliano Veneto (TV), Italy.
F. Romanzi
Dept. of Radiology, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy.
L.F. Ciardo
Dept. of General Surgery, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy.
L. Bittesini
Dept. of Histopathology, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Conegliano Veneto (TV), Italy.
S. Nardini
Dept. of Pneumology, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy.
N. Bedin
Dept. of General Surgery, ASL 7 della Regione Veneto. Presidio Ospedaliero di Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy.
Primary nodular amyloidosis of the lung is an uncommon manifestation. The disease runs a benign course, but offers diagnostic problems due to non-specific radiological features entering the big field of the solitary nodule. We describe the case of a 60 year old man with multiple nodules on the left lung operated on diagnostic and therapeutic video-assisted thoracoscopy and discuss the possibilities, if any, of suspecting such a disease through radiologic characteristics along with findings from the patient’s history, physical examination and laboratory tests.

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“Primary Pulmonary Nodular Amyloidosis”. 2005. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 63 (3). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2005.638.