Pleomorfic carcinoma: A rare case of lung cancer

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2008

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

Pleomorphic carcinoma is a rare epithelial malignant tumor. Pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma was introduced by the 1999 World Health Organization classification as a new peculiar type of lung carcinoma showing concurrent malignant epithelial and sarcomatoid spindle cell elements. Rarely seening, advange age, male sex dominance, upper lobe involvement, big sized (more than 7 cm.) at time of diagnosis , and poor prognosis are the characteristics of it. We are reporting 63-year-old man with pleomorfic carcinoma in the left lower lobe who was treated by left pneumonectomy.

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Lung, Pleomorfic Carcinoma, Pneumonectomy

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23

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2

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