Diffuse pulmonary ossification: A case report.

Eur J Radiol Open

Medical Imaging Department and Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Coimbra, Portugal, Praceta Mota Pinto/Av. Bissaya Barreto, 3000-075 Coimbra, Portugal.

Published: April 2016

Diffuse pulmonary ossification (DPO) is a rarely diagnosed entity that may present with characteristic imaging features. It is listed in the differential diagnosis of lung parenchymal calcifications and should be considered by the radiologist if the appropriate findings are identified. We report a case of DPO secondary to mitral stenosis in a patient whose severe cardiac pathology lead to death few weeks after a chest CT was done. To date, there are no specific treatments with proved benefit in this pathology.

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