Pol Merkur Lekarski
January 2006
The primary tracheo-bronchial amyloidosis is a rare entity with long lasting and progressive course. Precise diagnosis can be established on the basis of pathological features seen in samples derived from the airways, obtained during fibreoptic bronchoscopy or during lung biopsy sometimes. Describing the case of an insidious course of primary tracheobronchial AL type amyloidoisis, that was initially recognised and treated as a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAuthors present a case of EH as an accidental finding in 40 year old woman appeared as the presented small, solid nodules in both lungs on a routine chest radiograph and HRCT scans. There were no signs in clinical examination, no abnormalities were presented in the spirometric and respiratory tests, neither in the endoscopic digestive tract examinations nor in CT scans of abdomen. The histological examination of open lung biopsy revealed the morphology of epithelioid haemangioendothelioma.
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