title: Uncommon pulmonary metastasis presenting as pulmonary infarction with tumour emboli in two cases.
abstract: We report two cases of pathologically proven pulmonary metastases presenting as pulmonary infarction with tumour emboli. In two cases, high-resolution CT showed multiple small subpleural consolidations in both lungs. The patients had breast cancer and uterine cervix cancer, respectively. Although various pulmonary diseases show subpleural consolidations on CT, pulmonary metastases by tumour emboli should be primarily considered in differential diagnosis especially when the patient has known malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Radiology             Pathology             Thoracic Surgery, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Ju Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kyung Hee
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yong Han
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Youn Jeong
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yeo Ju
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D054060:Pulmonary Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*