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Pentazocine

Foreign body pulmonary vasculopathy (Excipient lung disease)

See also under Vv. Angiocentric foreign body granulomas may engulf talc, cellulose, starch, silica or crospovidone particles. For acrylate cement, see under under VIh. Review at PMID 23864061

Publications

Fields TA, McCall SJ, Reams BD, Roggli VL, Palmer SM, Howell DN

Pulmonary embolization of microcrystalline cellulose in a lung transplant recipient.

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2005 May;24;624-7 — 2005 May — 624-7

Farber H, Glauser FL

The effect of oral hydralazine on the pulmonary hemodynamics of patients with pulmonary foreign body granulomatosis.

Chest 1982 Dec;82;708-12 — 1982 Dec — 708-12

Zeltner TB, Nussbaumer U, Rudin O, Zimmermann A

Unusual pulmonary vascular lesions after intravenous injections of microcrystalline cellulose. A complication of pentazocine tablet abuse.

Virchows Archiv. A, Pathological anatomy and histology 1982;395;207-16 — 1982 — 207-16

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