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Metabolic lung diseases constitute a heterogeneous group of disorders that occur in the setting of altered biochemical homeostasis. Most of these diseases are uncommon or rare. Pulmonary disease in affected patients is most commonly a facet of systemic disease. The more common metabolic lung diseases include pulmonary calcification and ossification, pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis, pulmonary amyloidosis, and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP).
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Popper, H., Murer, B. (2020). Metabolic Lung Diseases. In: Pulmonary Pathology. Essentials of Diagnostic Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22664-0_32
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