SIDEROELASTOSIS PULMONUM - CAUSE OR CONSEQUENCE OF THE PULMONARY VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE

Authors
VERBEKE CS HEUBNER CC
Citation
Cs. Verbeke et Cc. Heubner, SIDEROELASTOSIS PULMONUM - CAUSE OR CONSEQUENCE OF THE PULMONARY VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE, Respiration, 62(3), 1995, pp. 167-170
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Respiratory System
Journal title
Respiration → ACNP
ISSN journal
00257931
Volume
62
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
167 - 170
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-7931(1995)62:3<167:SP-COC>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
In a 66-year-old patient morphologic features of a pulmonary veno-occl usive disease were found. Besides, a striking foreign body giant cell reaction with phagocytosis of altered elastic tissue in totally or par tially occluded venous blood vessels resembled the so-called pulmonary sideroelastosis, an entity originally described by Ceelen. In this ca se report, a possible pathogenetic relation between sideroelastosis pu lmonum and pulmonary veno-occlusive disease is discussed.