Primary tracheo-bronchial amyloidosis studied with 64-slice MDCT (2D and 3D reconstructions)

A 50-year-old Caucasian man was presented to the emergency department with cough and progressive dyspnoea. Plain chest x-ray showed multiple pseudo-nodular parenchymal opacities, partly confluent and calcified, prominent in the middle-basal lung fields (figure 1A). Figure 1 (A) Plain chest x-ray showing multiple pseudo-nodular parenchymal opacities, partly confluent and calcified, prominent in the middle-lower lung fields. (B) Trans-axial HRCT slice …