Silicosis represents the most prevalent chronic occupational pulmonary disease in the world. It arises predominantly in mine workers and sandblasters and has declined over the past century due to the ...

A calcified granuloma in the lung is a cluster of immune cells with calcium deposits. They can be asymptomatic or cause symptoms such as wheezing and chest pain. A granuloma is a small cluster of ...

A calcified granuloma is a cluster of cells that forms as part of an immune response and hardens over time. It’s usually due to an infection and most commonly forms in the lungs, but can occur in many ...

ALTHOUGH the discovery at autopsy of focal calcification in pulmonary valves of patients with congenital pulmonary stenosis is not rare 1 demonstration of such calcification on roentgenograms of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An 83-year-old Haitian woman was referred to the endocrine clinic for a thyroid nodule. The nodule was detected ...

A 37-year-old man with progressive chronic renal failure (which started in the first year after a kidney transplant 15 years earlier) presented for evaluation of a nonproductive cough. There was no ...

Pulmonary artery (PA) calcification is unusual in children, occurring only in conjunction with severe underlying valvular disease or association with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), twin ...

HISTOPLASMOSIS, a generalized fungous disease that begins in the lungs, 1 is world-wide in distribution, but the main endemic area comprises the Mississippi valley of the United States. 2 It is the ...