Diverse roentgenographic manifestations of the rare pulmonary involvement in myeloma

Chest. 1992 Sep;102(3):946-8. doi: 10.1378/chest.102.3.946.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Amyloidosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Multiple Myeloma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Multiple Myeloma / epidemiology
  • Plasmacytoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Plasmacytoma / epidemiology
  • Radiography