Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor

Pulmonary carcinosarcoma is an unusual biphasic tumor of the lung with carcinomatous and sarcomatous components. We report a case in a 71-year-old female who presented with a 13-cm lung mass. Microscopic examination revealed squamous cell carcinoma and chondrosarcoma with focal spindle cell atypia....

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Autores principales: Devi, Pooja, Singh, Natasha, Tortora, Mathew J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31700745
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5643
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author Devi, Pooja
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description Pulmonary carcinosarcoma is an unusual biphasic tumor of the lung with carcinomatous and sarcomatous components. We report a case in a 71-year-old female who presented with a 13-cm lung mass. Microscopic examination revealed squamous cell carcinoma and chondrosarcoma with focal spindle cell atypia. In the most recent version of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, carcinosarcoma is included in the category of sarcomatous neoplasms with a poorer prognosis than non-small cell lung carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-68229212019-11-07 Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor Devi, Pooja Singh, Natasha Tortora, Mathew J Cureus Pathology Pulmonary carcinosarcoma is an unusual biphasic tumor of the lung with carcinomatous and sarcomatous components. We report a case in a 71-year-old female who presented with a 13-cm lung mass. Microscopic examination revealed squamous cell carcinoma and chondrosarcoma with focal spindle cell atypia. In the most recent version of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, carcinosarcoma is included in the category of sarcomatous neoplasms with a poorer prognosis than non-small cell lung carcinoma. Cureus 2019-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6822921/ /pubmed/31700745 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5643 Text en Copyright © 2019, Devi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor
title Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor
title_full Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor
title_fullStr Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor
title_short Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma: A Case Report of Biphasic Lung Tumor
title_sort pulmonary carcinosarcoma: a case report of biphasic lung tumor
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31700745
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5643
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