Two Synchronous Lung Metastases from Malignant Melanoma: the Same Patient but Different Morphological Patterns

Overview

Journal Eur J Radiol Open

Specialty Radiology

Date 2019 Aug 28

PMID 31453271

Citations 11

Authors

Andrea Borghesi

Andrea Tironi

Silvia Michelini

Alessandra Scrimieri

Diego Benetti

Roberto Maroldi

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Abstract

Malignant melanoma is an aggressive cancer with a high metastatic potential. Among the multiple sites of metastatic disease, the lung is one of the most frequently involved sites. Typically, pulmonary metastases from malignant melanoma occur as solid nodules. Rarely, pulmonary involvement in metastatic melanoma occurs as subsolid nodules. The present article describes an unusual case of a patient with malignant melanoma that developed two synchronous pulmonary metastases with two different densities on CT images (one solid and the other subsolid) and different morphological patterns on histologic images. The radiologic-pathologic correlation of these two patterns of presentation was also reported.

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