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(Chest. 1996;110:570-571.)
© 1996 American College of Chest Physicians

Desmoplastic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as a Lung Mass

Dellice M. Dickhaus MD1 and Dan Schuller MD1

1 From the Barnes-Jewish Hospital of St. Louis and the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

A case of metastatic desmoplastic malignant melanoma is reported. The patient presented initially with a lung mass and subsequently developed facial swelling and numbness secondary to tumor involvement of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve. The pleomorphism, histochemistry, and schwannoid differentiation of these tumors is discussed.

Key Words: desmoplastic malignant melanoma • immunohistochemistry • malignant schwannoma

Submitted on January 10, 1996
Accepted on March 6, 2007






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