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Metastatic pulmonary calcification: High-resolution computed tomography findings in 23 cases Calcificação pulmonar metastática: Achados na tomografia computadorizada de alta resolução de 23 casos
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Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85029945802
DOI 10.1590/0100-3984.2016-0123
Año 2017
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings in patients diagnosed with metastatic pulmonary calcification (MPC). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the HRCT findings from 23 cases of MPC [14 men, 9 women; mean age, 54.3 (range, 26-89) years]. The patients were examined between 2000 and 2014 in nine tertiary hospitals in Brazil, Chile, and Canada. Diagnoses were established by histopathologic study in 18 patients and clinical-radiological correlation in 5 patients. Two chest radiologists analyzed the images and reached decisions by consensus. Results: The predominant HRCT findings were centrilobular ground-glass nodules (n = 14; 60.9%), consolidation with high attenuation (n = 10; 43.5%), small dense nodules (n = 9; 39.1%), peripheral reticular opacities associated with small calcified nodules (n = 5; 21.7%), and ground-glass opacities without centrilobular ground-glass nodular opacity (n = 5; 21.7%). Vascular calcification within the chest wall was found in four cases and pleural effusion was observed in five cases. The abnormalities were bilateral in 21 cases. Conclusion: MPC manifested with three main patterns on HRCT, most commonly centrilobular ground-glass nodules, often containing calcifications, followed by dense consolidation and small solid nodules, most of which were calcified. We also described another pattern of peripheral reticular opacities associated with small calcified nodules. These findings should suggest the diagnosis of MPC in the setting of hypercalcemia.

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Radiologia Brasileira 0100-3984

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1 Belém, Luciana Camara Mujer Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
2 Souza, Carolina A. Mujer Ottawa Hospital Research Institute - Canadá
3 Souza, Arthur Soares Hombre Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto - Brasil
4 Escuissato, Dante Hombre Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brasil
5 Hochhegger, Bruno Hombre Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre - Brasil
6 Nobre, Luiz Felipe - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brasil
7 Rodrigues, Rosana Souza Mujer Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
8 Gomes, Antônio Carlos Portugal - Beneficenca Portuguesa Hospital Sao Paulo - Brasil
9 SILVA-ZAMORA, CLAUDIO SERGIO Hombre Universidad del Desarrollo - Chile
Clínica Alemana - Chile
10 Guimarães, Marcos Duarte Hombre A.C.Camargo Cancer Center - Brasil
Fundacao Universidade Federal do Vale do Sao Francisco - Brasil
11 Zanetti, Gláucia - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
12 Marchiori, Edson Hombre Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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