Abstract

BARRERA, Ana Madeleine  and  VARGAS, Leslie. Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis with dendriform pulmonary ossification. Biomédica [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.4, pp.504-508. ISSN 0120-4157.  https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v36i4.2968.

Pulmonary ossification is a rare and usually asymptomatic finding reported as incidental in lung biopsies. Similarly, idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis is a rare cause of pulmonary infiltrates. We report the case of a 64-year old man with chronic respiratory symptoms in whom these two histopathological findings converged

Keywords : Osteogenesis; hemosiderosis; lung; case reports.

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