ReviewBMC cancer2016
Pulmonary melanoma and "crazy paving" patterns in chest images: a case report and literature review.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Primary Melanoma of the Lung: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Pooled it
- A Case of Autoimmune Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
- Comprehensive Literature Review on Melanoma of Unknown Primary Site Triggered by an Intriguing Case Report.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A rare radiological presentation of pulmonary metastases from malignant melanoma.Radiology case reports · 2023Article
- A case of pulmonary infection with Prevotella melanogenica having the paving stone symptom.Journal of radiology case reports · 2023Article
- Unilateral 'Crazy-Paving' pattern: An exceptional presentation of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Primary Pulmonary Malignant Melanoma Presenting as Bilateral Multiple Subsolid Nodules: A Case Report.Taehan Yongsang Uihakhoe chi · 2022Article
- Lung-only melanoma: UV mutational signature supports origin from occult cutaneous primaries and argues against the concept of primary pulmonary melanoma.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2020Article
- Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis: no longer in the stone age.ERJ open research · 2020Review
- Concurrence of primary pulmonary malignant melanoma with invasive pulmonary adenocarcinoma: a case report.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2020Article
- Primary Pulmonary Malignant Melanoma Found While Evaluating New Onset Cough: A Case Presentation and Literature Review.Case reports in pulmonology · 2019Article
- Non-specific interstitial pneumonia associated with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis showing "crazy paving" appearance on thin-section lung CT.Respirology case reports · 2018Article
- Primary Pulmonary Malignant Melanoma: Report of an Important Entity and Literature Review.Case reports in oncological medicine · 2017Article
- A rare case of secondary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with adenocarcinoma of lung with retroviral disease.Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest SocietyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundIn the lung, melanoma is mostly arranged as patterns of multiple nodules, solitary nodules, or miliary invasions. Very rarely, it also displays a "crazy paving" pattern (also described as a "paving stone," "flagstone," or "slabstone" pattern), which is rarer still in discrete bilateral nodules. This pattern is considered to be caused by pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, but its association with various diseases is unclear. CASE PRESENTATION: A 60-year-old man was diagnosed with pulmonary melanoma. Computed tomography revealed discrete bilateral nodules surrounded by a "paving" pattern. A literature review found more than 40 types of diseases that have presented with "paving" patterns in the lung-predominantly pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, viral pneumonia, exogenous lipoid pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis, interstitial pneumonia, ARDS, squalene aspiration pneumonia, radiation pneumonitis, drug-induced pneumonitis, pulmonary leptospirosis, pulmonary hemorrhage, and pulmonary nocardiosis.
conclusionsWe describe the first case of pulmonary melanoma in the form of discrete bilateral nodules accompanied with a computed tomography paving pattern. Although pulmonary paving patterns are rare, more than 40 diseases reportedly display them; clinicians should consider melanoma of the lung in differential diagnoses for patients who show such a pattern.
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