Difference between revisions of "Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia"
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Treatment: | Treatment: | ||
*Somatostatin analogs<ref name=pmid26112453/> - improves cough. | *Somatostatin analogs<ref name=pmid26112453/> - improves cough. | ||
Criteria - as per Marchevsky and Walts:<ref name=pmid26472691>{{Cite journal | last1 = Marchevsky | first1 = AM. | last2 = Walts | first2 = AE. | title = Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH). | journal = Semin Diagn Pathol | volume = 32 | issue = 6 | pages = 438-44 | month = Nov | year = 2015 | doi = 10.1053/j.semdp.2015.08.002 | PMID = 26472691 }}</ref> | |||
*Three or more separate small airways pulmonary neuroendocrine cell clusters. | |||
**Each cluster should have five or more pulmonary neuroendocrine cells. | |||
*Three or more carcinoid tumourlets. | |||
==Gross== | ==Gross== | ||