Difference between revisions of "Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia"

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-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>
+===Criteria===
-*Three or more separate small airways pulmonary neuroendocrine cell clusters.
+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> criteria - both 1 & 2 are required:
-**Each cluster should have five or more pulmonary neuroendocrine cells.
+#Three or more separate small airways pulmonary neuroendocrine cell clusters.
-*Three or more carcinoid tumourlets.
+#*Each cluster should have five or more pulmonary neuroendocrine cells.
+#Three or more carcinoid tumourlets.
+Notes:
+*The Marchevsky and Walts definition is not universally accepted.
+*WHO definition is vague.
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