Difference between revisions of "Pulmonary cytopathology"

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 ==Adenocarcinoma==
+{{Main|Adenocarcinoma of the lung}}
+===General===
 *Most common type of lung cancer.
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 *Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH) - thought to be the precursor to adenocarcinoma.<ref name=pmid11235908>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Mori | first1 = M. | last2 = Rao | first2 = SK. | last3 = Popper | first3 = HH. | last4 = Cagle | first4 = PT. | last5 = Fraire | first5 = AE. | title = Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia of the lung: a probable forerunner in the development of adenocarcinoma of the lung. | journal = Mod Pathol | volume = 14 | issue = 2 | pages = 72-84 | month = Feb | year = 2001 | doi = 10.1038/modpathol.3880259 | PMID = 11235908 |url = http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v14/n2/full/3880259a.html }}</ref>
 **AAH has a size criterion, ergo not really possible to diagnose on cytopathology specimen.
+*Vegetable cell - contaminant.<ref name=pmid8384547>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Naryshkin | first1 = S. | last2 = Young | first2 = NA. | title = Respiratory cytology: a review of non-neoplastic mimics of malignancy. | journal = Diagn Cytopathol | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 89-97 | month =  | year = 1993 | doi =  | PMID = 8384547 }}</ref>
 ==Neuroendocrine tumours==