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Images in Thorax
Primary tracheo-bronchial amyloidosis studied with 64-slice MDCT (2D and 3D reconstructions)
  1. Francesco Boccuzzi,
  2. Marco Busso,
  3. Luciano Cardinale,
  4. Cesare Fava
  1. Department of Radiology, San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Francesco Boccuzzi, Istituto di Radiologia, Ospedale S. Luigi Gonzaga, Orbassano (TO), Reg. Gonzole 10, ORBASSANO (TO) 10043, Italy; francesco_boccuzzi{at}hotmail.com

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A 50-year-old Caucasian man was presented to the emergency department with cough and progressive dyspnoea.

Plain chest x-ray showed multiple pseudo-nodular parenchymal opacities, partly confluent and calcified, prominent in the middle-basal lung fields (figure 1A).

Figure 1

(A) Plain chest x-ray showing multiple pseudo-nodular parenchymal opacities, partly confluent and calcified, prominent in the middle-lower lung fields. (B) Trans-axial HRCT slice …

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