Metastatic melanoma. Another cause of a solitary pulmonary nodule with an air bronchogram.
Distinct air bronchograms were seen in a solitary pulmonary nodule, a metastasis from a malignant melanoma of the scalp. Such a finding has been reported previously only in alveolar-cell carcinoma, pulmonary lymphoma, and pulmonary pseudolymphoma.
D000368:Aged; D000388:Air; D001995:Bronchography; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012535:Scalp; D012878:Skin Neoplasms