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ArticleJournal of medical case reports2014

Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis co-existing with breast cancer: a case report.

Toyomitsu Sawai, Yasuhiro Umeyama, Sumako Yoshioka, Nobuko Matsuo, Naofumi Suyama, Shigeru Kohno

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Article in Journal of medical case reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Characterization and outcomes of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in Brazil: a case series.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Toyomitsu SawaiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center City Hospital, 6-39 Shinchi-machi, Nagasaki 850-8555, Japan. toyosawai@yahoo.co.jp.
Yasuhiro Umeyama
Sumako Yoshioka
Nobuko Matsuo
Naofumi Suyama
Shigeru Kohno
Nagasaki Medical Center · JPNagasaki University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionPulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a rare pulmonary disease characterized by excessive alveolar accumulation of surfactant due to defective alveolar clearance by macrophages. There are only a few published case reports of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis occurring in association with solid cancers. To the best of our knowledge, there are no previously reported cases of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis associated with breast cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48-year-old Asian woman, a nonsmoker, presented to our institution with a right breast mass. Biopsy examination of the lesion revealed scirrhous carcinoma. A chest computed tomography scan for metastases showed abnormal shadows in both upper lung fields. As a result of flexible fiberscopic bronchoscopy, this patient was diagnosed as having pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. This case was categorized as autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis due to the positive anti-granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor antibody. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis decreased gradually after mastectomy.

conclusionsThe present case involved the coincident occurrence of autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with breast cancer; breast cancer may be a factor during pulmonary alveolar proteinosis development.

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Autoimmune DiseasesBiopsyBreast NeoplasmsBronchoscopyDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHumansMastectomy, Modified RadicalMiddle AgedPulmonary Alveolar ProteinosisTomography, X-Ray ComputedUltrasonography, Mammary

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PMID25139636
PMCPMC4140142
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