Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy in a patient with pulmonary alveolar
microlithiasis. Thorax 1991 Feb;46(2):145-146.
Mutations in SLC34A2 cause pulmonary alveolar
microlithiasis and are possibly associated with testicular
microlithiasis.
Methodology: It was a cross-sectional study on infants aged less than one year old, diagnosed as patients with
microlithiasis and nephrolithiasis, over three months period (since March 2010) who were referred to pediatrician in a city of East Azerbaijan province.
Subsequent computed tomography of the chest revealed that his lungs were filled with multiple small calcifications and ground glass opacities with air bronchograms involving all lobes, consistent with diffuse alveolar
microlithiasis. Arterial blood gas showed hypercapnic, hypoxemic respiratory failure.
Pulmonary alveolar
microlithiasis in childhood: Clinical and radiological follow-up.
But it remains unclear what the optimum follow-up care is for patients with testicular
microlithiasis, which is characterized at sonography by multiple micro-calcifications in the testes.
"We think the most prudent use of resources for early detection of malignancy would be that all patients with classic testicular
microlithiasis perform testicular self-examinations and follow-up be limited to a subgroup of patients with classic testicular
microlithiasis and other risk factors," the researchers wrote in their abstract.
Testicular
microlithiasis: imaging appearances and pathologic correlation.
Occult
microlithiasis in 'idiopathic' acute pancreatitis: prevention of relapses by cholecystectomy or ursodeoxycholic acid therapy.
It has been shown that after an extensive work-up for recurrent pancreatitis (magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, endoscopic ultrasound, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), analysis of bile for
microlithiasis, and sphincter of Oddi manometry), a substantial number of cases have been classified as idiopathic AP (23).
(150-152) Germ cell neoplasia in situ is also associated with
microlithiasis (although this finding is nonspecific), (153) which may partially account for the scrotal ultrasound irregularities that are often seen in testes with GCNIS.
Prevalence of testicular
microlithiasis in males with congenital adrenal hyperplasia and its association with testicular adrenal rest tumors.
