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Nodular senile pulmonary amyloidosis: a unique case confirmed by immunohistochemistry, mass spectrometry, and genetic study.
Human pathology - 1 Jul 2010
Roden Anja C, Aubry Marie-Christine, Zhang Kai, Brady James O, Levin David, Dogan Ahmet, Yi Eunhee S
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Nodular pulmonary amyloidosis, characterized by solitary or multiple parenchymal nodules, is primarily composed of amyloid immunoglobulin light chain protein. Pulmonary involvement by senile amyloidosis has been reported as an incidental finding with scattered or diffuse interstitial deposition of amyloid protein transthyretin mostly in patients with cardiac senile amyloidosis in a small number of autopsy cases....
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