An Unusual Cause of Miliary Shadows—Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis
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Microlithiasis of Seminal Vesicles and Severe Oligoasthenospermia in Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis (PAM): Report of An Unusual Sporadic Case
s:696:"Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is classified as an elective dysmetabolic thesaurotic pneumoalveolitis and characterized by the presence within the alveoli of the lungs of myriad of tiny calculi. The classic presentation of the chest radiography is unmistakable with multiple small "sand-like" opacities diffusely involving both lung fields. We present a case of male infertility fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2320-8775
DOI: 10.4103/jacp.jacp_10_18