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Imaging of diffuse metastatic and dystrophic pulmonary calcification in children after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Departments of ¹ Radiology and ² Bone Marrow Transplantation, Saint-Louis University Hospital, AP-HP, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France

The authors describe three cases of diffuse pulmonary calcification; two metastatic in children with acute transitory renal failure and the other dystrophic in a child with leukaemia. All three patients underwent haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Chest radiographs disclosed diffuse calcification within the lungs. The distribution of this calcification was bilateral but asymmetric. Diagnosis was made in two cases by high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and in one case by HRCT and bone scan. Radiological characteristics, scintigraphic features, pathological mechanism and clinical outcome of such pulmonary calcification are discussed.

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