Case Reports
doi: 10.1016/s1579-2129(06)60262-0.
[Chronic idiopathic lithoptysis]
[Article in
Spanish]
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- PMID: 16117952
- DOI: 10.1016/s1579-2129(06)60262-0
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Case Reports
[Chronic idiopathic lithoptysis]
[Article in
Spanish]
Arch Bronconeumol.
2005 Aug.
Abstract
Broncholiths, which usually arise from calcified peribronchial lymph nodes, can be found by radiography or bronchoscopy. We describe the case of a 19-year-old man who had experienced lithoptysis of bronchial hydroxyapatite calculi for over 6 months and who reported having sandy expectoration since childhood. Exhaustive clinical, radiographic, and endoscopic diagnostic studies detected no calcified lesions in the thorax that could explain the origin of the broncholiths. Therefore, we propose that broncholiths may form by mechanisms similar to those involved in calculi formation in other locations.
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[Lithoptysis in a patient with primary ciliary dyskinesia].Arch Bronconeumol. 2006 Aug;42(8):417. doi: 10.1016/s1579-2129(06)60558-2. Arch Bronconeumol. 2006. PMID: 16948997 Spanish. No abstract available.
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[On lithoptysis and the limitations of bibliographic databases].Arch Bronconeumol. 2006 Sep;42(9):487. doi: 10.1016/s1579-2129(06)60572-7. Arch Bronconeumol. 2006. PMID: 17040665 Spanish. No abstract available.
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[Airway calcium deposition and broncholithiasis in disorders of mucociliary clearance].Arch Bronconeumol. 2007 Aug;43(8):474. doi: 10.1157/13108791. Arch Bronconeumol. 2007. PMID: 17692252 Spanish. No abstract available.