Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis in Saudi child: a case report

ABSTRACT

Background: Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis [PAM] is a rare but not uncommon disease; it showed worldwide distribution either familial or sporadic, the most reported cases in Europe, especially in Turkey. The presence of round shaped little bodies containing concentric calcareous lamellas in pulmonary alveolus is the hallmark of the disease. With this study, we report a case of PAM in Arabic descent, a Saudi child, who represented the most characteristics of the disease in dissociation between definite radiological pattern of the lungs and relatively poor clinical symptoms