Fried E D, Godwin T A
Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital 10021.
Chest. 1992 Nov;102(5):1614-5. doi: 10.1378/chest.102.5.1614.
Diffuse lung injury can either heal normally or progress to fibrosis. Calcification in the setting of fibrosis is common. The appearance of mature woven bone is not. We report a patient with extensive diffuse pulmonary ossification and discuss some of the theories relating to the development of this phenomenon.