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Primary malignant melanoma of the lung
S P Bagwell1, S D Flynn, P M Cox
1Department of Critical Care Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland.
The American Review of Respiratory Disease
|June 1, 1989
Abstract:
Primary malignant melanoma of the lung is a rare neoplasm; to date, there have been approximately 20 cases reported in the literature. Extensive clinical and postmortem examinations are necessary to exclude the possibility that the lung tumor does not represent a metastasis from an occult cutaneous or extracutaneous melanoma. We present a case of a 62-yr-old man who appears to have had a primary melanoma of the left upper lobe of the lung. The literature on primary pulmonary melanoma is also reviewed.