Placental Lung Transmogrification presenting as voluminous symptomatic lobar emphysema

Hintergrund: Placental lung transmogrification (PLT) is a rare pathological entity which describes the occurrence of a placental histologic pattern within the lung. Treatment recommendations are scarce due to only few cases described up to now. Clinical signs range from asymptomatic to acute pneumothorax, but classically, patients present with cough and progressive dyspnea. The disease induces bullous emphysema and cystic transformation of the lung. Surgical removal is the treatment of choice, but treatment modalities are differently reported. We here describe a rare case of PLT in the light of the current liter…