Placental transmogrification of the lung: CT findings with pathologic correlation in six patients. 2023

Sang Hwa Shin, and Yoon Ki Cha, and Jong Hee Kim, and Jung Han Woo, and Tae Jung Kim, and Myung Jin Chung, and Joungho Han, and Yun-Jung Lim
Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Placental transmogrification of the lung is a very rare benign lung disease with a characteristic finding being alveoli resembling chorionic villi of the placenta. The purpose of this study was to assess the computed tomography (CT) findings of placental transmogrification of the lung in six patients and their relation to the histopathologic findings. Six patients with histopathologically proven placental transmogrification of the lung from 2004 to 2021 were included. Their CT findings were analyzed and their imaging features were compared with pathology specimens. In four of six cases, CT showed variable sized cystic lesions confined to a unilateral lung. One case presented nodule and cystic lesion together. The other case showed solitary pulmonary nodule without cystic lesion. Moreover, nodular interlobular septal thickening and clustered interstitial nodules were observed in all six cases. In four of the six cases, these nodules merged into dense nodular consolidation. Three cases showed dilated pulmonary vasculatures of the involved lung. On CT, placental transmogrification of the lung typically presents as cystic lesion confined to a unilateral lung. Pulmonary nodule with or without associated cystic lesion can also be seen. Nodular interlobular septal thickening and clustered interstitial nodules were observed in all cases. This might be attributable to the proliferation of chorionic villi-like structures in interstitium which are found in histopathologic specimens.

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