Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska

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4/2012 vol. 9

Metastatic pulmonary calcification – a case report and review of the literature

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2012; 9 (4): 452–455
Online publish date: 2013/01/14
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Confronting perimenopausal women’s knowledge of coronary heart disease with their health behaviours. Controversial role of hormone replacement therapy in the protection of coronary heart disease
We present a case report of a 66-year-old woman with multiple lung nodules up to 1 cm in diameter observed for 2 years. The patient was dialyzed for many years due to end-stage renal failure. No signs of respiratory distress and normal levels of calcium serum were observed. Several individual lung nodules were resected through minithoracotomy and metastatic pulmonary calcification (MPC) was diagnosed. We describe the clinical, morphological and physiological characteristics of MPC and its diagnosis with reference to the present case.
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