Matari Hussein, Itani Abedalrahman, Amin Hossam
Department of Radiology, Metropolitan Hospital Center/New York Medical College, New York, New York 10029, USA.
J Thorac Imaging. 2003 Apr;18(2):104-5. doi: 10.1097/00005382-200304000-00010.
Calcification within pulmonary lesions usually signifies a benign entity, but depending on the specific pattern of calcification it can also represent malignancy. The authors report a case of calcified small cell lung cancer in a patient with end-stage renal disease. The calcification was unrelated to renal failure and not the result of metastatic calcification, and the pattern of calcification and tissue pathology excluded other causes of calcification within this mediastinal mass.
肺部病变内的钙化通常提示为良性病变，但根据钙化的具体形态，它也可能代表恶性肿瘤。作者报告了1例终末期肾病患者发生钙化的小细胞肺癌病例。该钙化与肾衰竭无关，并非转移性钙化的结果，钙化形态和组织病理学排除了该纵隔肿块内钙化的其他原因。
