[Primary pseudotumoral pulmonary amyloidosis with Pierre-Marie syndrome]

Rev Pneumol Clin. 1989;45(4):164-7.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report a case of pseudotumoral, nodular, parenchymatous, primary pulmonary amyloidosis in a male patient under 50 years of age. The amyloidosis spread step by step, very progressively, over 12 years before Marie's disease developed. The pre-operative diagnosis was made by electron microscopy of an intrabronchial growth biopsy. Right pleuro-pneumonectomy was performed, resulting in regression of Marie's disease within 3 months. There was partial factor X deficiency. Four years after surgery, nodules have appeared in the left upper lobe, suggesting a recurrence.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Amyloidosis / complications*
  • Amyloidosis / diagnosis
  • Amyloidosis / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Factor X Deficiency / complications
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases / complications*
  • Lung Diseases / diagnosis
  • Lung Diseases / pathology
  • Lung Diseases / surgery
  • Male
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
  • Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging
  • Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / etiology*
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Syndrome
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed