Diverse roentgenographic manifestations of the rare pulmonary involvement in myeloma.
Roentgenographic manifestations of two cases of pulmonary involvement with myeloma were presented. One showed a nodular mass lesion extending from an extramedullary mediastinal plasmacytoma into the lung parenchyma while the other showed diffuse reticulonodular infiltrate by myeloma cells in association with alveolar septal amyloidosis. These two cases demonstrate the extreme variability of pulmonary involvement by myeloma, which can mimic a solitary tumor or an inflammatory infiltrate.
Shin
M S
MS
Department of Radiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham.
Carcelen
M F
MF
Ho
K J
KJ
D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011859:Radiography